The surgeon general said during The Hill’s “Future of Healthcare: Bold Bets in Health” event that he had previously been “deeply concerned” about mental health among Americans before the coronavirus struck.
Anxiety and depression levels have risen during the pandemic, he said, adding they had already been increasing ahead of COVID-19.
ADVERTISEMENT Here s where my concerns are that we re still not doing enough to meet the extraordinary demand that we have,” he told The Hill’s editor-at-large, Steve Clemons.
Murthy considers the next priorities to be expanding access to mental health services, including through integrated primary care, training more mental health care providers amid a shortage in available professionals and launching prevention programs to reduce the prevalence of mental illness and substance use disorders.
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Sudhanshu Kaushik leads a Zoom meeting with members from North American Association of Indian Students.
Avani Singh hops on Zoom around 11 p.m. every night with her mother in New Jersey and uncle in India, strategizing how to keep her coronavirus-stricken grandfather alive.
They already managed to get K.S. Walia, 94, out of a New Delhi emergency room where Singh said a worker demanded an $8 bribe to keep oxygen running. A different hospital where her grandfather is now admitted said the family would need to find oxygen and remdesivir, a drug that reduces recovery time, themselves, Singh said.
Before starting a new search last weekend, Singh, a 28-year-old consultant, walked her dog in her Arlington, Va., neighborhood where people lined up to get inside a rooftop tiki bar and a group pedaled by on a party bike, drinking beer. She returned to her apartment and stayed up until 2 a.m. scouring Instagram for phone numbers of Indians who might have oxygen and getting no replies to a flu
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