This is an extremely irresponsible headline, and should be changed. If you read the paper [1], "mental illness" is defined as a spectrum of things, the most co

This is an extremely irresponsible headline, and should be changed. If you read the paper [1], "mental illness" is defined as a spectrum of things, the most common of which (Anxiety, depression and insomnia) affect large numbers of people anyway, and even more so during a period where we've completely up-ended normal life for a huge portion of society. Moreover, the paper makes it clear that 13.3% of influenza patients treated as a control also have the same spectrum of diagnoses (Table 3; 18.1% is the value for the covid cohort). For first diagnoses, the numbers are significantly smaller (Table 2; 5.8% for covid, vs. 2.8% for influenza controls). So while the paper has some ~possibly interesting things to say about relative risk (with the caveats I stated above), the headline is simply clickbait. [1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30462-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...