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If people start most fires, keeping people indoors should mean fewer of them. When COVID-19 lockdowns kept people home in early 2020, that’s mostly what happened.

Lockdown-related stress led to more severe brain changes in girls, raising concerns about long-term mental health impacts, say scientists. Study: COVID-19 lockdown effects on adolescent brain ...

Background/objective Children born during England’s COVID-19 lockdowns experienced markedly limited social exposure during a crucial developmental window. Given the importance of early interactions in ...

New research found that teens’ brains “aged” during the COVID-19 lockdowns due to the loss of social interaction. Girls were the most impacted. COVID-19 as a virus has wreaked havoc in many ways, ...

West Lothian teenager said she ‘fell through the cracks’ while struggling with autism and ADHD during the Covid lockdowns ...

The UK was one of the most locked-down countries in the world during the COVID pandemic, but this was not inevitable—it was a failure of public health policy. In a public health emergency, saving ...

Standing knee-deep in a Montana river while fishing with a TV news anchor, Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted “regret” that some of California’s COVID crackdowns went too far. Newsom’s pandemic mea culpa ...

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in the Monthly Notices of the ...

Conservatives aren't willing to forgive and forget the COVID-19 lockdowns — a fact made clear online as fury erupted during and after Dr. Anthony Fauci's appearance before Congress on Wednesday where ...