Lucy Johnston talks to Professor Marcantonio Spada about Covid 19 anxiety syndrome.

“If you want to incubate anxiety in people you get them to repeatedly worry, avoid and check. In fact it is the royal road to anxiety. Over the last year we’ve been inundated with these messages.”

“There are difficulties for children in language development. Children go round immediately sanitising. Children absorb the feeling in the environment of threat. We don’t know how bad it’s going to be for young people with Covid 19 anxiety syndrome.