Pediatrician: COVID-19 social isolation is 'hitting the kids the hardest'
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John Solomon
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians, Dr. Michelle Cretella, says that more kids and teens are experiencing depression and anxiety as a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns, with suicide becoming the second leading cause of death for young people around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | All right folks, welcome back to another edition of John Solomon Reports. As before, I'm |
| 0:11.7 | your guest host, Daniel Payne, your reporter with Just the News. I almost said special guest |
| 0:16.6 | host. I don't know if I'm that special, but in any event I'm filling in for my editor |
| 0:20.7 | and chief John Solomon this week and I'm happy to be here and I'm glad you're joining |
| 0:24.5 | us as well. As ever, there's plenty of news to cover today and of course you can get |
| 0:29.1 | great coverage of all the most important events of the week at JustTheNews, JustTheNews.com. |
| 0:33.4 | We invite you to take a look there. It's December and of course the Christmas decorations |
| 0:38.4 | are coming out. Now in some cases they've been out since before Thanksgiving or even since |
| 0:43.0 | around Halloween and I have a lot to say about that, but we'll say that for another time. |
| 0:47.4 | In any case, this would normally be about the time of year that kids would be looking |
| 0:51.0 | forward coming home from school for a few weeks, slowing down, taking it easy, but of course |
| 0:56.7 | in many cases, if not most cases throughout the country, children are already home. They've |
| 1:01.3 | been home from school for weeks, if not months. If not since the early spring of this year. |
| 1:07.1 | Public officials, as I'm sure you're aware, have many times throughout the course of the |
| 1:11.2 | COVID-19 pandemic in the US shut down elementary schools and middle schools and high schools |
| 1:17.0 | in many cases statewide in the hopes that doing so will help reduce the number of positive |
| 1:22.5 | COVID-19 tests. Now in most cases, students have been switched to remote learning and that's |
| 1:28.1 | really amounted to hastily assembled form of online education using Zoom. Of course |
| 1:34.6 | I'm sure everybody is very familiar with Zoom at this point, the online video service. |
| 1:39.9 | That's what students have been attending over the last several months. And various forms |
| 1:45.7 | that system have been put in place throughout the United States since around March or April |
| 1:49.9 | in school districts and counties and cities. In addition to that, in many cases, students |
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