Covid 19 and education: There is no vaccine for long-term trauma

JoAnne Silver Jones
6 min readFeb 9, 2021
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I am a retired college professor, privileged to watch from the sidelines the various educational responses to the Covid 19 pandemic. My perspective is significantly informed by having lived with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder for the past decade. It is from this perch that I sense the long shadow of trauma encroaching. It is hard for me to believe that…

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JoAnne Silver Jones

Author of Headstrong: Surviving a traumatic brain injury, Professor Emeritus, Springfield College, Massachusetts, love family, friends, the ocean and my dog