Covid’s toll on sample of Soweto residents
Oct 10, 2020
3 minutes
EMILY MENDENHALL AND
ANDREW WOOYOUNG KIM
SOUTH Africa’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak was swift and assertive. We conducted a study to capture how people were coping during lockdown in Soweto. Psychological assessments were done between April last year and March this year; and again in the first six weeks of the lockdown.
We called 957 adults living in Soweto who had been enrolled in studies on the epidemiology of syndemics, or synergistic epidemics. We spoke to them about how they experienced lockdown and Covid-19.
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