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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

I am part of a Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services committee consisting of behavioral health clinicians, patients and their relatives. On a meeting this week a man who is in his 70s and is a patient was quite distraught. He said he had a really hard time getting necessary medicine this past week. He said he was at CVS and waiting for his clinician to fill his Rx. He says he was doing much better before COVID happened, I have seen him at more than a dozen meetings and a couple of community events over the years and he is definitely doing worse now. This meeting me realize that there are two separate groups whose affected by COVID, those with ongoing chronic mental illness whose condition is aggravated by COVID and those who did not previously have significant mental illness who develop a mental illness during or because of COVID-19 and the lockdown. The effect of COVID on mental illness can only be judged after looking at both groups. WE got our second Moderna shot Wednesday. WE had almost no effect in the first 12 hours after the shot. Then we had fatigue, chills and feeling feverish, though I checked once and didn't have a fever.