When schools pivoted to remote learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the first casualty was children’s mental health.
A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed teenagers’ mental health from January 2021 to June 2021. Compared with 2019, the study found that the proportion of mental health-related emergency department visits in 2020 increased by about 31 percent among children aged 12–17 years.
