EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: Crisis Response Tactics Severe COVID Linked to Mental Illness in Weeks, Months After Infection By Staff Thursday, August 22, 2024 6:09 AM Severe COVID-19 was associated with elevated risks for depression and serious mental illness months after infection, especially among unvaccinated people, a cohort study involving more than 18 million individuals in the U.K. found.Compared to the period before a COVID infection or to individuals without an infection, those hospitalized for COVID had substantially higher risks for depression in the 4 weeks after admission, both in the pre-vaccine era and among unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals in the vaccine era. In all three groups, the risk for depression remained elevated up to a year later.Similarly, elevated risks for serious mental illness were observed among hospitalized patients in the 4 weeks after a COVID diagnosis, reported Jonathan Sterne, PhD, of the University of Bristol in England, and colleagues in JAMA Psychiatry. Head over to MedPage Today to read more about it.