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Tom is under medical care for depression. He takes his medication and sees his clinician at regular intervals. But between visits, he sometimes believes he is getting worse. He feels sluggish, he thinks and talks more slowly, and occasionally the idea of suicide comes into his mind. But he doesn’t want to bother his clinician. He makes it to his next appointment, where his clinician notices the changes and adjusts his medication, but he wonders whether what he experienced between office visits could have been dealt with more quickly.

The University of Maryland's COVID-19 Analytic Research Group found that social distancing measures helped prevent infections in March to May 2020 in five states, which at the time had half of the nation's cases.(Photo by iStock)