Caught the COVID-19 Blues?

Research shows that music can provide a medicinal antidote to our emotional ailments

There are many ways to calm our nerves and become joyful, but perhaps none carry the universal appeal of listening to music.stockfour/Shutterstock

English acoustic-physics pioneer, John Stuart Reid, explains how music medicine can banish the blues (and fear) associated with COVID-19 while boosting our immune system to help vanquish any pathogen.

It’s natural to have low spirits (the blues) and to feel fear when we sense that our security or way of life may be threatened.