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Mental Health ER Visits Increase 31% for Teens During Pandemic

  • November 21, 2020

The pandemic is creating havoc with the mental health of children. In the year of the worldwide pandemic, the CDC reports that mental health-related emergency room visits in the U.S. increased 31% for children between the ages of 12 and 17 from March to October, compared to the same period in 2019. In addition, there was a 24% increase ER visits for children between the ages of 5 and 11. The CDC analyzed hospital data from 47 states that comprised about 75% of ER visits. One in 85...