NYT: Mental Illness Raises the Risk of Severe Covid. The Question Is: Why?

People with psychiatric conditions are more likely to be hospitalized or die of the virus. Scientists have ideas about why that might be the case.
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As usual this all tends to read backwards, or at least missing the associations, direction of causality, and the wood for the trees, with few people connecting the dots. Ziyad Al-Aly offers a sensible initial comment —

But elsewhere the commentary is —

So I guess we were all mentally ill, but just didn't know it until we hit perhaps 40, 50 or 60.

That stigma of course being largely the predisposition, precipitant and perpetuation by medicine itself.

 

Good grief this is a mess, Al-Aly aside. And so judgmental in most of the wrong ways. At its core is what even is the definition of mental illness, which the paragraph about Long Covid and pre-existing mental illness shows is just a giant dysfunctional clusterfuck. They're really stuck on mental illness about where medicine was in the late 19th century, and show no sign whatsoever of moving past the looping ruts they carved going round and round asserting the same nonsense.