{"id":2456181,"date":"2025-03-09T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2456181\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T21:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:28:57","slug":"the-covid-pandemics-lingering-physical-and-mental-toll-five-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2456181\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID pandemic\u2019s lingering physical and mental toll, five years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pu2yZUEts0Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe COVID pandemic\u2019s lingering physical and mental toll, five years later<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFive years ago this week, the World Health Organization called the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In the United States, officials declared a national emergency, triggering travel bans for non-U.S. citizens and shutdowns nationwide. Now, many who lived through the pandemic, including those who treated infected patients, are still dealing with the fallout. Ali Rogin reports.<\/p>\n<p>Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app:\u00a0https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at\u00a0https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel:\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok:\u00a0https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews<br \/>\nX (formerly Twitter):\u00a0http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<br \/>\nInstagram:\u00a0http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts:\u00a0https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<br \/>\nNewsletters:\u00a0https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID pandemic\u2019s lingering physical and mental toll, five years later Five years ago this week, the World <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2456182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[782472,5278,782468,782471,1467,281349,13381,782470,182818,782469,33101,13385,782473,1541],"class_list":{"0":"post-2456181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-2020-pandemic","9":"tag-covid","10":"tag-covid-19-awareness","11":"tag-covid-5-years-later","12":"tag-covid-19","13":"tag-covid-19-pandemic","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-health-news","16":"tag-long-covid","17":"tag-nyu-langone","18":"tag-pandemic","19":"tag-public-health","20":"tag-respiratory-disease","21":"tag-1541"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2456182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}