Since becoming fully operational, the zoo says it has tested blood samples on higher-risk elephants twice a week and monitored trunk washes weekly on the whole herd.
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The pandemic has made post-secondary students’ mental health even worse
As college and university students face a mental health crisis, faculty and institutions are looking at making structural changes By Julia Mastroianni
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Among the many negative effects of COVID-19, deteriorating mental health of post-secondary students has been one of the most serious and widespread.
Mental health stressors are a major issue for post-secondary students in particular, though the pandemic has only exacerbated a growing crisis in Canada.
“Things were going downhill in mental health for students across North America before COVID,” says Paul Ritvo, a psychology professor at York University who has been studying the effects of mindfulness on student mental health. “What COVID has done is it has put health and health science in the top headlines, and we have become a more health-oriented society.”