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Nearly 1 in 5 Develop Mental Illness Following COVID-19 – Medscape
About 20% of COVID patients are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder such as anxiety or depression within 3 months of testing positive for the virus.
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One in five COVID-19 patients are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder such as anxiety or depression within 3 months of testing positive for the virus, new research suggests.
“People have been worried that COVID-19 survivors will be at greater risk of psychiatric disorders, and our findings in a large and detailed study show this to be true,” principal investigator Paul Harrison, BM, DM, professor…
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