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State focuses on mental health, gun violence crises made worse by COVID


State focuses on mental health, gun violence crises made worse by COVID
Julia Bergman
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As life returns to normal in Connecticut, the first state in the nation to fully vaccinate 50 percent of its adult population against COVID-19, the pandemic’s mental health toll wages on.
Low infection rates, declining hospitalizations and deaths in the single-digits are all signs the state is “making real progress when it comes to our physical health,” Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday, but he added, “we still do have some healing to do and a lot of that is related to mental health.”
A spike in mental health related calls to United Way’s 211 call center is evidence of that, the governor said. Community health centers including East Hartford-based InterCommunity Health Care, are seeing an increase in “psychiatric calls for mental health issues and substance abuse issues,” CEO Kim Beauregard said, joining Lamont at his virtual coronavirus briefing ....

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