nearly one in five patients develops mental illness

According to the researchers’ analysis, 18.1% of people who tested positive for COVID-19 were subsequently diagnosed with mental illness. This is almost one in five people, a worrying statistic that adds to the many health dangers associated with the crisis.

This particularly includes psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression or insomnia. For 5.8% of people, this was the first diagnosis of mental illness.

Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, noted that the stress resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic may play a role in diagnoses. According to him, we can reasonably establish a correlation between these different symptoms and the Covid-19 pandemic.