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Three months ago, the author was quoted in a Texas newspaper saying that this pandemic \'will also be a public health issue\' (Ferman & Tatum, 2020) The loss of human lives will result in more serious mental health crises in patients, their families, communities, and health-care workers, including an increase in posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, pandemic-related psychoses, marital problems, and suicides among health-care and non-health-care workers (Solomon, 2020;Watkins, Rothfeld, Rashbaum, & Rosenthal, 2020) The civil unrest that has recently erupted heralds the public mental health crisis ahead, triggered by COVID-19;the unbearable and longstanding social injustices toward African American communities;and the sharp increase in unemployment that continues to affect everyone but particularly the African American community (Seib, 2020) Thus, now is the time to organize centralized mental health counseling services for citizens, health-care workers, patients, and their families to prevent further financial and human costs, especially in rural areas-before it is too late The future of U S health-care workers and non-health-care workers will be darker if they lose their mental well-being and the will to live (Dean, 2020) We need a truly united, well-coordinated, and committed effort to overcome this serious public health crisis (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
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