McKnight's November 21, 2023
(HealthDay News) — People living with severe mental illness (SMI) experienced substantial inequalities in mortality outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Jayati Das-Munshi, PhD., from King’s College London, and colleagues examined associations between COVID and death in people with SMI (February 2020 to April 2021). The analysis included 7,146 individuals with SMI and 653,024 primary care patients without SMI.
The researchers found that following COVID infection, the SMI group experienced a greater risk for death compared with controls (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.53). Death from COVID was more likely among Black Caribbean/Black African people than White people...
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