Hello /sci/, to anyone who has experience with the topic, I am curious: Is it possible for a mass psychogenic illness to arise alongside the current pandemic that is Covid-19? My thoughts are this: there is a significant amount of talk about the disease going around, and the symptoms are well known, but also very common. Suppose a number of people have dry coughs for reasons unrelated to the disease. Could they end up experiencing other symptoms of the disease through a nocebo effect?