<p>New research from King’s College London has found that in the UK people with severe mental illness were at increased risk of death from all causes following COVID-19 infection compared to those without severe mental illness.</p>
The study also looked at how race affected the chance of dying from COVID-19, and it found that Black Caribbean/Black African people had a 22 percent higher death risk than White people, regardless of whether they had serious mental illness.
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