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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on the world. At the time of writing, there have been more than 78 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide and more than 1.7 million COVID-19-related deaths (Johns Hopkins University, 2020). In response to the pandemic, societies across the globe have taken a series of measures to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, including quarantine, social distancing and major lockdowns, the latter having a significant negative impact on the global economy. As both the pandemic per se – and the societal response to it –may affect the mental health of the affected populations significantly (WHO, 2020), there has been substantial interest in this topic from research groups across the globe. The general tendency revealed by the studies conducted so far is that the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have had a negative impact on the mental health of the affected populations (Xiong et al., 2020). There are, however, relatively few studies that have allowed for the examination of mental health in nationally representative samples over the course of the ongoing pandemic. We recently reported results from wave 2 of the COVID-19 Consequences Denmark Panel Survey 2020 (CCDPS 2020) – a survey representative of the Danish population on a number of key variables fielded from April 22 to April 3