A rare complication of coronavirus sees patients suffer psychosis and become suicidal, an expert says. Joe Rafferty, CEO of Merseycare, told Liverpool Council's Health and Wellbeing Board during the first wave of the pandemic his staff did see referrals of some patients with the complication, which was the subject of a UK study earlier this year.
Mr Rafferty told the Liverpool Echo : "We were seeing people with Covid-related psychosis, really very ill, suicidal, and about 80% of those individuals were not previously known to Merseycare so there has been some really fundamental shifts in presentation across mental health services during wave one of Covid. "We have also done a very significant piece of work based on the Liverpool population