The vaccine rollout may be hastening the end of the pandemic but the damage to mental health has already been done, suggests new research. The new report indicates the scale of the impact the pandemic has had on mental health. It has found rates of depression have more than doubled since before the coronavirus pandemic, yet despite this public health crisis, fewer people than ever have been seeking help from their GP. Just over a fifth of people in Britain experienced some form of depression between January 27 and March 7 2021, more than double the pre-pandemic figure, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
