Table 3.

Summary of Recommendations for Addressing and Supporting Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Urgent
1	Support immediate, large-scale research into the nature, treatment, and long-term consequences of COVID-19 on mental health.
Short-term
2	Encourage physicians, nurses, and other mental health care professions to systematically screen for and monitor a range of short- and long-term mental health dimensions among COVID-19 survivors, close relations, as well those with greater exposure risk or burden of care.
3	Prioritize safe access to childcare and elementary schooling.
Ongoing
4	Invest in mental health care such that someone with mental illness has equal access to evidence-based treatment as someone who has physical illness.
5	Specific mental health resources and actions should be tailored to the resources available, but at the very least should include online cognitive behavior therapy treatments supplemented by locally trained, although possibly lay, mental health practitioners.
6	Individuals and organizations should supplement existing mental health care with well-being promotion.
7	Governments and organizations should facilitate access to mental health care and the promotion of well-being alongside social care.