Month: August 2020

As President Donald Trump insists that schools across America reopen, even as new data shows a startling surge of the coronavirus among children and teenagers, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that returning students to the classroom shouldn't be done hastily. "We're going to need to do it safely. We're going to need to do it sensibly. And we're going to have to do it based on the unique circumstances, the kinetics of the epidemic and in the areas that the schools are beginning to try to wrestle with this reopening," CDC Director and virologist Robert Redfield told "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt. Watch this interview tonight on "NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT and on the NBC News special series "Coronavirus a...

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Roughly 30.9 percent of respondents said they had symptoms of anxiety or depression. Roughly 26.3 respondents reported trauma and stress-related disorder because of the pandemic. Another 13.3 percent of respondents said they have turned to substance use, including alcohol and prescription or illicit drugs, to cope with stress from the pandemic. More than half of respondents who identified as essential workers reported some kind of adverse mental health or behavioral health condition related to the Covid-19 emergency. The anonymous internet survey was based on self reporting and didn't cover clinical diagnoses. The background: Federal officials and public health experts have been warning about a potential mental health crisis stemming from the pandemic, though there's been little...

EMTs transferring a patient out of the acute care covid-19 unit at the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington on May 7, 2020Photo: Karen Ducey (Getty Images) The start of the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. may have been earlier and far larger than official records indicate, according to a new study. Researchers found that a substantial portion of people, including children, in Seattle who were suspected of having the flu this past winter likely had covid-19 instead. It also estimates the city may have had thousands of cases by early March, when barely over a hundred cases in the state were reported. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin looked back to two different periods during the earliest days of the pandemic: the month of January in Wuhan, China, and the wee...