
(WWJ) – The COVID-19 pandemic hit nearly three years ago, shedding light on a massive nationwide issue: mental health. For some the coronavirus and everything that changed with the pandemic was too much.
In 2020, 20-year-old Isaac Danian of Grand Rapids, Mich., fled the country after falling deeply into COVID conspiracy theories, in an attempt to avoid the vaccine and testing. After finding his way to the South Pacific, the French government told his mother he had drowned.
On a new Daily J, WWJ’s Zach Clark learns it’s not really clear what exactly happened to Isaac, as he hears from his mother, Abigail, and gets insight from mental health experts on the toll the pandemic has taken on some.
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