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Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Population Health Research Brief Series

The Mental Health Toll of COVID-19

Xiaoyan Zhang

December 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has profoundly disrupted Americans' lives. The share of U.S. adults reporting unmet mental health treatment needs has been rising steadily over the past couple of months. Rates are even higher for adults with children in the household.

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