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STOCKHOLM, Sweden May 24, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A leading Swedish psychiatrist has said that daily media reports on COVID-19 have caused the general population to live in an unhealthy cycle of fear and panic.
In a TEDx Talk, David Eberhard, psychiatrist and head of staff at Prima Maria Addiction Care Clinic in Stockholm, has urged people around the world not to live in fear of a virus with a negligible mortality rate.
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Despite the fact that the virus is particularly dangerous for the majority of people, according to Eberhard the media’s daily reporting of COVID-19 deaths for over a year has led ordinary people to believe that if anyone contracts the virus “they will most certainly die.”
According to Eberhard, being mortal, death is part of the natural cycle of life. However, the risk of dying is not usually broadcast over television on a daily basis. This emphasis on death is causing the population to believe that “everything is out of control,” which will lead them to overestimating the risks of the virus.
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