One of the parents got up and said, you now you just don't get it. I have a 23 year old son with schisophrenia, and he's been hospitalized five times. Our house is on fire, and you're talking to us about the chemistry of the paint. This was an urgent public health crisis that didn't just require that we know more, but that we do better with what we know right now. That urgency is not the way we do science generally.
The past week/month/year/pandemic has taken a toll on a lot of people’s mental health. And the US has proven woefully incapable of dealing with mental health for years.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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