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Americans with certain mental disorders are at an increased risk of dying from COVID-19, a new study finds.
Researchers from the University of Texas found that people who suffer from schizophrenia are four times as likely to die of Covid than the general population.
Additionally. those who have anxiety or mood disorders are almost three times as likely to die from the virus as people without these conditions.
What's more, people with psychiatric disorders were also found to contract COVID-19 at lower rates, which researchers believe is a result of social isolation associated with the conditions.
People who suffer from psychiatric disorders are at an increased risk of dying from COVID-19, a new study finds. People with schizophrenia are 3.74 times as likely to die than the average person, and those with mood disorders or anxiety are more than twice as likely (file photo)
Researchers, who published their findings on Tuesday in JAMA Network Open, gathered data from 2.5 million Americans.
Among that group, 3,350 had schizophrenia, 26,610 were diagnosed with a mood disorder and 18,550 had anxiety.
They compared infection and mortality rates of the
