id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-319969-wlnbilr5 Chatterjee, Seshadri Sekhar Worried Well and Covid-19: Re-emergence of an old quandary 2020-06-18 .txt text/plain 898 59 55 • 'Worried Well', as a concept, was first described during HIV; • Current COVID-19 Pandemic has given rise to wave of worried well again; • This leads to burden on already overburdened health care system. Seshadri Sekhar Chatterjee, Mansi Vora, Barikar As Covid-19 hit the world, almost all the countries are tackling it with lockdown, increased testing, and other Strategies. As actual cases are continuing to overwhelm the health care, there is another set of people posing burden to the healthcare system, that is the 'worried well', a phenomenon referred clinically as a type of mass psychogenic illness. 'Worried Well', as a concept, was first described during HIV, when many people visited hospitals for consultation, for being tested or for reassurance (Cochran and Mays, 1989 ). A psychiatrist may treat the patient based on the differential diagnosis and when it is an established 'worried well' case, reassurance and educating should be emphasized upon. ./cache/cord-319969-wlnbilr5.txt ./txt/cord-319969-wlnbilr5.txt