Mental health fallout from covid19 is another pandemic Dr Varma Deyalsingh Psychiatrist and Independent Senator Dr Varma Deyalsingh has described the mental fallout from the covid19 pandemic as a pandemic within a pandemic. He said statistics showed 20 per cent of all employees would experience a mental health problem in their lifetime, but said what is happening now will increase this figure. “I wish we had a vaccine for the mental fallout,” he told a sensitisation session on Tuesday addressing the critical and emerging issues surrounding mental health in the workplace brought on by the pandemic. The session was organised by the Employers Solution Centre, along with its parent body, the Employers Consultative Association (ECA).