Students' mental health deteriorating during pandemic
A report released by the Centers for Disease Control in November showed that mental health visits comprised a greater percentage of pediatric emergency room visits during the pandemic in 2020, compared to the same months of the previous year.
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Deborah Sullivan Brennan / The San Diego Union-Tribune |
7:00 am, Feb. 7, 2021
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The problems facing families may have deeper, more enduring effects on children, who don't have the perspective to see the pandemic as a temporary circumstance. Tribune News Service
SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) – Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck last March, psychiatric emergency visits at Rady Children's Hospital near San Diego have crept up as youths and teens struggle with virtual learning, social isolation and unstable home lives.