Netha Carter News Today

The pandemic has so seriously strained already tight state psychiatric hospitals in Georgia, Virginia, Texas and elsewhere that these facilities for the poorest and most vulnerable people with mental illness struggle to admit new patients.

Many patients dealing with mental health crises are having to wait several days in an ER until a bed becomes available at one of Georgia's five state psychiatric hospitals, as public facilities nationwide feel the pinch of the pandemic.

The pandemic has so seriously strained already tight state psychiatric hospitals that these facilities for the poorest and most vulnerable people with mental illness struggle to admit new patients.