You’re not alone if you’ve experienced new or worsening mental illness after recovering from COVID. While the coronavirus’s long-term consequences on mental health remain a mystery, in the four years since the pandemic's onset, researchers worldwide have already documented a link between infection and mental health deterioration.
Now scientists in the U.K. have uncovered a new piece of the puzzle: COVID vaccination may mitigate the virus’s adverse effects on mental health. The team, including researchers from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford, and Swansea, as well as University College London, showed higher rates of mental illnesses among unvaccinated people, up to a year after severe COVID infection. Their findings were published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.
