While standard care for patients with psychiatric disorders must continue during the current COVID-19 pandemic, psychiatrists also need to treat psychiatric complications of patients with this new disease. An estimation of expected prevalences of psychiatric disorders occurring in this group would help to redistribute mental health personnel between old and new tasks to serve the needs of both groups optimally. In The Lancet Psychiatry, Jonathan Rogers and colleagues1 report the results of their systematic review and meta-analysis of psychiatric sequelae in patients admitted to hospital with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19 in the acute and post-illness stages of disease.
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