The psychological impact of COVID-19 in Canada: Effects of social isolation during the initial response.

Canadian public health officials responded to the unprecedented global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by invoking public health measures ranging from extreme (e g , quarantine) to null (e g , social distancing) measures null Although necessary to mitigate disease spread, the psychological impact of social distancing and isolation is unknown (Wang et al , 2020) null The impetus of this study were calls for research to compare the...