American teenagers are reporting severe levels of anxiety and depression. But when Connecticut moved to expand mental health services in schools, it ran into fierce opposition in one town. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Teenagers and Adolescence”
Covid Vaccines Did Not Protect Adolescents as Effectively During the Omicron Surge
By Gotham Rex on March 30, 2022
Hospitalizations of children remained comparatively rare, but vaccine effectiveness fell sharply among adolescents who did not have life-threatening Covid-19. Source: New York Times
After Covid, Are You ‘Mask Fishing’?
By Gotham Rex on March 28, 2022
As some Covid anxieties have receded, teenagers have a new word for the fear of shedding their masks to reveal their faces. Source: New York Times
To Stop Gun Violence, This Police Captain Is Trying a Novel Approach
By Gotham Rex on February 4, 2022
An N.Y.P.D. precinct in Brooklyn is seeing promise in a different kind of response to a shooting last spring: paying 15 teenagers to attend a “healing circle.” Source: New York Times
How Do You Make Teen Comedies Today? Buy a High School.
By Gotham Rex on November 21, 2021
A former school outside Syracuse, N.Y., has been transformed into American High, a production hub for inexpensive films aimed at streaming platforms. Source: New York Times
Covid-19 and Children: How Often Do Vaccines Cause Heart Problems?
By Gotham Rex on November 1, 2021
The latest data is reassuring. Myocarditis remains very uncommon, and it is almost always mild and temporary. The heart risk from Covid-19 itself is far greater. Source: New York Times
F.D.A. Authorizes E-Cigarettes to Stay on U.S. Market for the First Time
By Gotham Rex on October 12, 2021
The agency approved three Vuse vaping products and said their benefits in helping smokers quit outweighed the risks of hooking youths. Source: New York Times
C.D.C. Advisers Endorse Pfizer Vaccine for Children Ages 12 to 15
By Gotham Rex on May 12, 2021
Immunizations will quickly begin nationwide, officials predicted. Source: New York Times
Some Teens Volunteer for Covid Vaccine Trials to Get Their Lives Back
By Gotham Rex on February 16, 2021
Immunizing teenagers is a critical part of slowing the pandemic and reaching herd immunity. But enrolling them in clinical trials poses challenges that are very different than wrangling adults. Source: New York Times
Child Welfare Agency Cuts Ties to Professor Over Pedophile Studies
By Gotham Rex on January 7, 2021
The New York City Administration for Children’s Services will no longer work with Theo Sandfort, a professor who headed a separate study on L.G.B.T.Q. youth in foster care. Source: New York Times
A Man in a Black Ski Mask Cuts Short a 17-Year-Old’s Life
By Gotham Rex on October 29, 2020
Derek Trucios, 17, was the third teenager to die in Brooklyn this week, as a wave of gun violence takes a high toll among young New Yorkers. Source: New York Times
How One Shoreline Took the Lives of 7 Young People
By Gotham Rex on June 26, 2020
“Do you see my friends?” A year of tragedy along a strip of New York City beaches. Source: New York Times