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Rich Nations Are Failing Covid’s Mental Health Test

  • OECD warns countries have long under-funded mental care
  • Distress intensified in pandemic with huge potential cost
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Governments are falling short in most areas where they could tackle mental health difficulties that sharply increased in the Covid-19 pandemic and already place a huge burden on economies around the world, the OECD said.