The health professional missing from Biden's Covid advisers

Roy Richard Grinker writes that Joe Biden should include a behavioral health scientist on his Covid advisory team. Social isolation and economic hardships are having a profound effect on mental health and an expert could help promote federal research into ways to reduce disparities in access to the Internet technologies needed for psychotherapy telehealth. "Just as importantly, by acknowledging mental illnesses as a public health concern on par with 'physical' illness at the highest level of government, the President would send an important and potentially lasting message: there is no shame in seeking mental health care."

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