“I would very much hope that we would not do this again,” the top U.S. mental-health official said of the prospect of another shutdown. “We need to discuss the risks versus the benefits to taking any action.”
A second coronavirus lockdown could pose grave risks to the nation’s mental health, the country’s leading mental-health official said.
The increase in the number of suicides, fatal drug overdoses and instances of domestic abuse will be broad, deep and long-lasting, said Elinore McCance-Katz, the assistant secretary for mental health and substance use, who was nominated for the position in 2017 by President Trump.
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