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Article Draft Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia
Some of these consequences could be due to realistic dangers, but many reactions could be borne out of lack of knowledge, rumors, and misinformation. It is likely that community members show altruism and cooperation when faced with a crisis, and people might experience satisfaction from helping others. It is also possible that some people may have positive experiences, such as pride about finding ways of coping. For example, Eisenbeck and colleagues (2021) studied how individuals are able to cope and find meaning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were recruited from 30 countries and results showed that people who were able to reframe their experiences about the pandemic in a positive way had lower levels of depression, anxiety, and COVID-19 stress compared to those who did not use positive reframing. Gender, socioeconomic factors, physical health, and country of origin were not associated with outcome measures. Another study of nearly 10,000 participants from 78 countries found similar results with 40% reporting positive well-being. Research has suggested that it may be that positive reframing of COVID-19 related stressors allows individuals to view the adversity as a challenge and opportunity for growth, rather than a crisis to be avoided.

Impact on children
(these sections were under medical conditions with both disorders lumped into one paragraph so I rephrased and moved to the children section)

Autism Spectrum Disorder
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the lockdown has impacted mental health outcomes for children with special needs, creating challenges including the lack of understanding about the pandemic and the ability to complete school work independently. Children with autism were more likely to become agitated with the changing environment, and have an increase in behavior problems compared to children without a neurological disorder.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
With the impact of closed schools and daycares children and adolescents are not able to get the resources and peer interaction that they were getting before. Before they were given scheduled routines and now due to the lockdown those routines have dramatically changed. The change of routine can result in outbursts, tantrums, and conflict with parents/guardians. Adolescents and children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have struggled with staying confined in only one space, creating difficulties for caregivers to find activities that were engaging and even meaningful to them.

Impact on essential workers and medical personnel
The pandemic's social and economic implications may have been particularly challenging for low-income essential workers. Frontline employees are people who operate in critical industries and are required to physically show up for work for their jobs. In the early months of the pandemic, when personal safety equipment was in low supply, personal care aides, hospital janitorial staff, and cashiers were urged to risk their health and safety. Low-wage workers were disproportionately affected by these demands and the associated dangers to their health and safety: frontline workers earn lower wages on average and are more likely to be racial/ethnic minorities than those who could work from home during the pandemic. Low-income workers and those with less formal education were particularly affected by the pandemic, according to surveys performed by the US Bureau of Labor. Results showed that less than 5% of people without a high school diploma worked from home during the pandemic. Only 7% of service workers, the majority of whom were low-wage frontline workers, were allowed to work from home. People in the service industry were the least likely of all workers to get compensated for time off. The pandemic's nationwide economic implications resulted in business closures and record unemployment rates. Low-wage and part-time workers were those most likely to be unemployed and people of color (especially women) had disproportionate job losses compared to the general population .Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic