Hill January 24, 2021
As President Biden said in his inaugural address, “Few people in our history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we are in now.” Many of the issues he spoke of are borne from or exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. One area of the health care crisis, the declining state of mental and physical health, poses a notable problem for the new administration.
Overall, the mental health of Americans has deteriorated as a result of the pandemic, and there have been more reports of loneliness, anxiety, and depression. Given the necessity of social distancing and limiting physical contact with others to stop the spread of the coronavirus, which goes against our instinctive...