People who get COVID-19 are more likely to suffer from mental health problems, according to a newly published study. Researchers found that people with COVID-19 who did not die were at a 60 percent higher risk of any mental health diagnosis or prescription, with problems including sleep disorders, depression, and neurocognitive decline. People with COVID-19, for instance, were 36 percent more likely to be prescribed opioids when compared to a control group. People with COVID-19 were also 24 percent more likely to suffer from sleep disorders. “The risks were evident even among people who did not need hospitalization during the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection,” Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Saint Louis Health Care System, and one of the researchers, wrote on Twitter. SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19. It is also known as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Researchers reached the …
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