GOD WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JOURNALISM?
Nowhere in the article is there any attempt to define "mental illness" or validate the rigorousness of the study.
Without any objective data or methodology, it's impossible to determine if the study also includes normal and expected outcomes of any hardship like:
* What percentage of the "1-in-5" patients already had contributing factors to the mental illness diagnoses before contracting COVID?
* What percentage of the "1-in-5" patients were diagnosed with "depression" which is a normal and temporary part of the grieving process experienced by otherwise mentally healthy people experiencing hardship?
I'm not trying to minimize or invalidate the situation of anyone suffering from the effects of COVID. I would just like to have a better understanding of the actual risk of interacting with people on a day-to-day basis. The title of this article suggests I have 20% chance of mental illness after being exposed to the virus. Having read the article, I now understand that I have a 0.0000000001% to 20% chance of such an outcome. I feel I've learned nothing, and I regret wasting my time reading it.