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Aug 30, 2021
Innovative Strategies for a Successful Return to Campus in a Changing COVID-19 Landscape
When college students, like me, were first sent home at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we naively believed it would just be an extended…
Aug 26, 2021
COVID-19 Outlook: A Country in Transition
After our COVID-Lab modeling update last week, we wanted to follow up on projections we made that are now validated in this week’s data.
Aug 19, 2021
COVID-19 Outlook: Resurgence is on the Move as Schools Reopen
After pausing our weekly forecasts in May, the COVID-Lab modeling team returns this week with new four-week county-level COVID-19 case…
Aug 17, 2021
New Challenges Await College Students Ahead of an Uncertain Academic Year. How Can We Support Them?
A new academic year approaches, and as mental health providers who predominantly work with adolescents, we reflected on how college students and…
Aug 11, 2021
Lessons Learned From a Year of School Surveillance
The word “uncertain” comes to mind when we think of the 2020-21 school year. In fall 2020, when we were both undergraduate students…
Aug 05, 2021
COVID-19 Outlook: The Uncertainty of What is to Come
With COVID-19 cases increasing across the country again, the importance of following local data is now more critical than ever. In parts of the South…
Jul 27, 2021
How COVID-19 Highlighted the Need for Teen Mental Health Screening in 200 Words
The COVID-19 pandemic—and school closures, disrupted routines, social isolation, family illness and financial hardships that accompanied it…
Jul 22, 2021
Picture This!: Exam Rooms as Examples of Ways to Integrate Play…Everywhere!
Walking into my (Danielle) clinical office, three exam rooms sit ready, filled with families each waiting to be seen. The day starts with a 10-year…
Jul 20, 2021
COVID-19 Outlook: A Summer Resurgence as Schools Plan for Fall
As COVID-19 incidence rates decreased in late spring 2021, our team stopped providing weekly COVID-Lab blog updates but noted we would…
Jul 07, 2021
A Life-changing Experience: My Takeaways from Modeling a Global Pandemic
I didn’t know I would become a biostatistician when I was studying biology at Wuhan University in Wuhan, China, 15 years ago—just like I…
Jun 25, 2021
Supporting the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth Following COVID-19’s Impact
LGBTQ+ youth face a number of unique challenges to their emotional and physical well-being, and the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally affected…
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