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As a mental health crisis looms, Southern states disproportionately rank at the bottom in terms of mental health care access. (Map via Mental Health America.) May is Mental Health Awareness month. This particular May also marks what some are calling a turning point in the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, with states across the South and the rest of the country this week reporting the lowest level of positive cases in months.  Yet even as increased vaccinations are leading to a decline in COVID-19 cases and deaths, the mental toll of the virus continues. And it may not be fully measured for years to...

 E-Mail Deaths caused by indirect effects of the pandemic emphasize the need for policy changes that address widening health and racial inequities. More than 15 months into the pandemic, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is nearing 600,000. But COVID-19 deaths may be underestimated by 20%, according to a new, first-of-its-kind study from Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), the University of Pennsylvania, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Published in the journal PLOS Medicine, the study uses data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Centers fo...

The official tally of COVID-19 American deaths stands at roughly half a million. But researchers are convinced that the actual toll is even grimmer, based on their analysis of “excess deaths.” That’s the number of people who died last year over and above what would be expected—given death numbers in previous years—but which wasn’t captured in the official COVID death figures.  A study being prepared by researchers at the School of Public Health and their colleagues finds that the largest undercounts are in counties that supported former president Donald Trump, who admitted he�...

income and health In the COVID Crisis, Unemployment Assistance Puts Food on the Table Receiving unemployment insurance cuts a person’s risk of food insecurity by a third, and halves the likelihood of needing to eat less because of financial constraints. And receiving more coverage, such as the CARES Act supplement, means an even bigger reduction in the risk of going hungry. January 29, 2021 Twitter Facebook As another wave of COVID-19 puts millions out of work, tens of millions more remain unemployed, and Congress debates aid, a new Boston University School of Public Hea...