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Pandemic stress may be causing people to lose their hair, according to a new study. By mid-summer, rates of a hair-shedding condition called telogen effluvium (TE) had surged more than 400% in a racially diverse neighborhood in New York City, researchers report in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Reuters reports.
From November 2019 through February 2020, the incidence of TE cases was 0.4%. By August, that rate had climbed to 2.3%, they found. “It is unclear if the increase in cases of TE is more closely related to the physiological toll of infection or extreme emotional stress,” said coauthor Dr. Shoshana Marmon of Coney Island Hospital.
Michael Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies director, said there had been a wave of expectation when vaccines began to trickle on stream last month, but people could not breathe a sigh of relief and slacken their vigilance against the disease.
“We’re all a year into this. It’s a really, really long battle,” he said.
