Sandro Galea, a physician and epidemiologist who serves as dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, told Newsweek on Wednesday he anticipated there would be a rise in mental health concerns connected to the coronavirus outbreak.
"I did some work around [the impacts of] quarantine after SARS, for example, and the studies are pretty clear that you can expect a large scale of mental health consequences," Galea, whose research has focused on the social causes of mental health issues, said.