countries. any discussion about closing schools should factor in the clear negative mental health toll. let's get more from our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. a compilation, i guess you would call it, of several big studies. >> reporter: studies from 11 different countries including the u.s., john, and when they did is tracked studies that were published or looked at data from february to july of 2020, and so, in other words, the time when lockdowns were happening, when schools were closing down. let's take a look at what they found. what they found is that there was -- there were increased rates of children showing symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, and interestingly child abuse reports from schools went down. now, first you think that's might good but that's actually bad. schools are, you know, relied upon to give reports when children are abused, but, of course, since they were shut down for much of this, they weren't making those reports and so you shudder to think of the situations that might have been happening that weren't getting
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