“The pandemic is the first wave of this tsunami, and the second and third waves are really going to be this behavioral health piece.” Feeling anxious and depressed? In California, you’re right at home.

+ “Already, the U.S. has faced nearly 40 such events costing at least a billion dollars each in the past decade, more than any period previously recorded. Mental-health experts worry the psychological toll from these increasingly common cataclysms — with a pandemic now overlaid on top — could be unprecedented.” The Center for Public Integrity: Disasters Are Driving a Mental Health Crisis.