The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recognized that people with schizophrenia and mood disorders such as major depression have a heightened risk of severe outcomes if they contract COVID-19, which increases their chances of being admitted to intensive care units.
Kelechi Ubozoh spent her childhood straddling two different worlds. She spent summers with her Nigerian father in New York, where she was born, and the rest of the year in suburban Atlanta, where her African American mother worked as a doctor. Today, she’s a mental health advocate, a convener and a storyteller.
In Trieste, Italy, local leaders transformed how mental health care is provided. Other cities have taken note.
CAHOOTS, a thirty-year-old Oregon program, has reduced calls to police and saved money. Now it’s going national.
