Each week, the index scrapes all the comments posted to Reddit by thousands of doctors and nurses. It aggregates and analyzes their language to explain how the pandemic affected and continues to impact their mental wellbeing. The index shows that the onset of the pandemic was overwhelming, as evidenced by the significant increase in levels of cognitive load, which in turn resulted in decreased capacity for analytical thinking, increased anger, fear, anxiety, and stress. As a result, their capacity for empathy plummeted and has stayed this way. 

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