Close to 1 in 5 COVID-19 Patients Are Later
Diagnosed With Mental Illness, Study Says.
A study conducted by the University of Oxford
and NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical has found a possible
link between COVID-19 and mental illness. .

According to their analysis, 18.1 percent of
people who have tested positive for COVID-19 were
later diagnosed with a mental illness.
This includes psychiatric disorders
such as anxiety, depression or insomnia. .
For 5.8 percent of people, it was their
first diagnosis of a mental illness. .
The calculations were made based off
around 70 million U.S. health records.
Paul Harrison, a psychiatry professor at the
University of Oxford, noted that the stressful
environment of the COVID-19 pandemic
may play a role in the diagnoses. .
Even so, Harrison says that its “not at all
unlikely” that COVID-19 could be causing
“neurological symptoms and difficulties.” .
... 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’