"Prioritizing COVID‐19 Vaccination for People with Severe Mental Illness"Even without factoring COVID‐19 into the calculation, people with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder, have a two to three times higher mortality rate than the general population, resulting in a 10‐20 years reduced life expectancy, that appears to be widening. A recent case‐control study with over 61 million patients found that people who were recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder or attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder showed very high odds ratios (5.7 to 7.6) of being infected with COVID‐19, as compared to patients without mental disorders, even after adjustment for age, gender, ethnicity and the aforementioned medical conditions. [...]persons suffering from a severe mental illness have more difficulties in following and applying the confusing and constantly changing rules and obligations that are established in relation to the fight against COVID‐19.