Health Populi September 9, 2020
“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care.
The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on Americans’ mental health, with anxiety and depression growing as a side-effect to worries about the virus itself, the long Great Lockdown in much of the country, and the economic recession that has particularly impacted women and people of color.
I covered depression impacts due to COVID-19 here in Health Populi yesterday, and wanted to follow that up with this McKinsey study to connect some dots.
In one section of the report, McKinsey focuses on...