People with mental disorders are included in a group of people with a high risk of coronavirus infection, writes The New York Times.
The Centers for the Control and Prevention of US Diseases attributed people with mental problems, including depression and schizophrenia, to those who have the right to revaccination. According to scientists, Americans are more likely to be seriously sick with COVID-19.
According to Professor Pennsylvania Floor Offit University (Paul Offit), the inclusion of mental disorders to the risk list gives the right to 85 percent of the US adult population re-obtain vaccinations. Each fifth adult American annually suffers from a form of a mental illness.
Studies have shown the relationship between mental disorders, hospitalization and severe course of coronavirus. Scientists find out that patients with schizophrenia infected with COVID-19 die from him three times more often. At the same time, people with bad mood and disturbing disorders were not susceptible to increased risk of death from infection.
previously became known that during a pandemic the number of cases of clinical depression and alarming disorders around the world increased more than a quarter.