CNBC September 10, 2020
Key Points
– “We know factually now that the rates of depression, rates of anxiety and diagnoses are up two to three times and it’s my hope that this is an important opportunity to reflect on how important mental health really is,” Sage Therapeutics CEO Jeff Jonas said.
– “We need to treat mental health like a physical illness, treat it urgently, in order to get people back to work and back to their families,” he said in a “Mad Money” interview.
– “For us to get back to work, for the world to recover … we need vaccines, we need treatments, but people have to be able to function,” Jonas said.
Mental health bouts have been on the rise...