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Study: Schizophrenia increases risk of dying from COVID-19

People with schizophrenia have an almost three times greater risk of dying from Covid-19 than people without the mental disorder, a new study finds, even after accounting for higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, and smoking. Schizophrenia ranks second — after age — in the odds of dying after Covid-19 infection.

People with mood or anxiety disorders had no increased risk of death from coronavirus infection in the cohort study of more than 7,300 patients treated in New York last spring.