"We need an unprecedented research response if we are to limit the negative consequences of this pandemic on the mental health of our society now and in the future". As many as 35 people have now succumbed to the infection in the UAE. "We can well expect there to be a rise in mental illness nationwide", first author Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, dean of the School of Public Health, Boston University, Massachusetts, told Medscape Medical News.
Our surveys show these changes are already having a considerable impact on our mental health.