Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/w1SujdrJgxk   Those with depression are are twice as likely to believe lies about CoVid.  Psychiatric investigators at Harvard’s Mass. General Hospital report these conclusions after analyzing responses from 2,809 adults completing two consecutive surveys two months apart.   Those with moderate or more severe major depression were more than twice as likely (2.2) to believe CoVid vaccine misinformation, were nearly 3 times more likely (2.7) to be vaccine deniers, and half as likely to have been vaccinated against CoVid.     Their depressive illness preceded exposure to social media so that CoVid  was not triggering the depression.  In addition, levels of depression in the general population are 3 or more times higher now than they were prior to the CoVid pandemic.   The Harvard scientists conclude that depression makes persons more vulnerable to unsubstantiated claims about CoVid and CoVid vaccines.  Aggressively treating this mental illness not only prevents self-destructive behav