CBC Manitoba: 5 years after start of pandemic, experts say Manitoba can still learn lessons from COVID-19

While the surge in mental health issues seen early in the pandemic by some accounts later returned to baseline levels, one clinical psychologist said the data on that return is mixed — which she attributes to certain groups being more affected than others.

“We know that groups such as those who had a lot of economic instability or sustained long periods of isolation, or those with compromised health problems or chronic health conditions, were at particularly elevated risk,” said Dr. Renée El-Gabalawy, an associate professor at the University of Manitoba and a clinical psychologist with Shared Health who studied the effects of the pandemic on mental health.

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