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SolStock/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Four years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, new data shows how severely the pandemic impacted young people s mental health, particularly girls.During the pandemic, there was an increase in severe emergency room psychiatric visits for children and teens, including for conditions like bipolar disorder, substance abuse disorders, and schizophrenia, according to research published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.In addition, mental health-related emergency room visits increased "beyond expected rates" for girls near the end of the pandemic, from 2021 to 2022, according to the research."We observed a unique vulnerability for girls during the pandemic, which indicates that girls mental health requires more attention," the study s lead author, Jennifer Hoffmann, MD, MS, emergency medicine physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s Hospital of Chicago, said in a statement.The newly published data, which looked

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