Healio (4/29, Herpen) reported, “Those hospitalized for psychiatric illness were less likely to be tested for COVID-19 and had lower confirmed infection rates but higher risk for COVID-19-related mortality than the general population,” researchers concluded in an “epidemiological study” utilizing “several national databases to include a nationwide cohort of 125,273 persons, 28 years and older, who had ever been hospitalized with a psychiatric disorder before March 1, 2020, along with reported rates of testing, infection, hospitalization, mortality and vaccinations between March 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021.” The findings were published online April 22 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
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— “Those with psychiatric illness less likely to be tested, vaccinated than general population “Robert Herpen, Healio, April 29, 2022