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title: "Covid NOT More Likely To Cause Depression Or Anxiety- Lockdown Does That!"
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<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10805853/Covid-not-likely-cause-depression-respiratory-infections-study-claims.html>

> **Covid is no more likely to cause depression, anxiety or other psychological issues than separate serious infections, a major study claims.**
> 
> **Oxford University researchers found the rates of psychiatric disorders were ‘similar’ among people hospitalised with Covid and for other respiratory illnesses.**
> 
> **They looked at around 17,000 patients admitted with the pandemic-causing virus in England between January 2020 and July 2021 and matched them to 32,000 people admitted for a different respiratory infection between 2015 and 2020.**
> 
> **The results were compared to baseline rates of psychiatric disorders among almost 8million members of the public.**
> 
> **Results showed people who survived severe Covid were nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression a year after they left hospital compared to the general public.**
> 
> **But those admitted for other serious infections — such as flu, pneumonia or — were at a three-and-a-half times increased risk.**
> 
> **Writing in [JAMA Psychiatry](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.1067?guestAccessKey=0bd25166-1940-4853-b5de-46ab2d856467&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=051122), experts said the risk of psychological disorders after severe Covid were ‘similar to those for other severe acute respiratory infections’.**
> 
> **They added: ‘This finding may inform post-discharge support for people surviving SARI.’**
> 
> **The study also found those with Covid were also at less risk of psychotic disorders and had the same chance of becoming bipolar later down the line.**