Close to 1 in 5 COVID-19 Patients Are Later<br />Diagnosed With Mental Illness, Study Says.<br />A study conducted by the University of Oxford<br />and NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical has found a possible<br />link between COVID-19 and mental illness. .<br /><br />According to their analysis, 18.1 percent of<br />people who have tested positive for COVID-19 were<br />later diagnosed with a mental illness.<br />This includes psychiatric disorders<br />such as anxiety, depression or insomnia. .<br />For 5.8 percent of people, it was their<br />first diagnosis of a mental illness. .<br />The calculations were made based off<br />around 70 million U.S. health records.<br />Paul Harrison, a psychiatry professor at the<br />University of Oxford, noted that the stressful<br />environment of the COVID-19 pandemic<br />may play a role in the diagnoses. .<br />Even so, Harrison says that its “not at all<br />unlikely” that COVID-19 could be causing<br />“neurological symptoms and difficulties.” .<br />... it’s not at all unlikely that there may also be a brain effect of the virus in certain people that is going to cause certain more neurological symptoms and difficulties, Paul Harrison, via ‘The Guardian’
