New evidence has emerged about the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles County, as shown by a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Scientists from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the USC Schaeffer Center and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, found that existing racial disparities in mental health worsened, with an overall trend of increasing depression risk in harder-hit areas among non-white L.A. County residents, including those from Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous racial and ethnic groups, but not for white residents.

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