Forbes January 26, 2022
For the second year in a row, concerns over COVID-19 led the World Economic Forum to hold its annual January Davos meeting virtually, rather than in person last week. For global leaders, this not only entailed the loss of the opportunity to interact with others, but also a truncated calendar of virtual events. One of the casualties of this abridged agenda was there was no discussion of one of the pandemic’s most serious and enduring consequences: the staggering rise in mental health illness.
According to a recent study of 204 countries published in The Lancet, in 2020, COVID-19 was responsible for generating an additional 53 million cases of major depressive disorder and 76 million additional cases of anxiety disorders....