A Public Health Perspective in the Times of COVID-19

(p 941) and Chiu et al ip 943), respectively, point to positive responses, including social, systemic, and legal measures that seem to have slowed and minimized the spread of the new virus while boosting the capacity of their public health systems to lower the morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 Auerbach and Miller (p 969) call for greater attention from policymakers, decision makers and care providers to preparing for the longer-term mental health consequences that the pandemic may have generally and specifically among people receiving or needing mental health care [ ]to respond to the pandemic as a matter of extreme urgency and yet not look away from other public health issues of importance, Williams (p 927), Gromis and Liu (p 1084), and Mellerson et al