Meet the Psychiatrist Telling Trump That Lockdowns Are Deadly | RealClearPolitics
Her bedside manner was abrupt and to the point — and not a little foreboding — at a recent White House Cabinet meeting. The Health and Human Services assistant secretary for mental health and substance use, the first person to hold that new post, delivered a warning. McCance-Katz told the president and his assembled secretaries that the cure for the COVID-19 pandemic has unintended but potentially grave consequences. She explained that self-isolation, while necessary to prevent spread of the virus, would exacerbate preexisting mental conditions and predicted that so-called deaths of despair would rise as lockdowns continued.