[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/06/health/covid-neurological-psychological-lancet-wellness/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/06/health/covid-neurological-psychological-lancet-wellness/index.html)

In fairness the standing rate for clinical mental illness in the USA is about 20% and this seems to be referring to diagnoses less severe than that (such as generalized anxiety). Covid is awful but I'm not sure this percentage marks any sort of divergence from previous stats.