The Washington Post (6/11, Chiu) reported a study the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued on Friday indicates that during 2021’s early months, trips “to emergency departments for suspected suicide attempts increased roughly 50 percent for adolescent girls compared with the same period in 2019.” The authors wrote, “The findings from this study suggest more severe distress among young females than has been identified in previous reports during the pandemic, reinforcing the need for increased attention to, and prevention for, this population.”
USA Today (6/11, Hauck, Miller) and HealthDay (6/11, Thompson) also covered the story.
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