Calgary kids and teens face growing mental health crisis as pandemic drags on
Alberta hospitals are dealing with a growing wave of kids and teens in mental health distress, even as the province's fourth wave of COVID-19 shows early signs of waning.
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Alberta hospitals are dealing with a growing wave of kids and teens in mental health distress, even as the province's fourth wave of COVID-19 shows early signs of waning.
Parents have many concerns and are turning to us, their pediatricians, with questions.
Dear parents, children and school boards of Alberta,
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Article content Just as Alberta set a new daily COVID-19 case count record, the UCP government on Thursday announced tighter restrictions for the most populous parts of the province that could include curfews. In the past 24 hours, the province recorded 2,048 new cases of the deadly virus, exceeding the previous record of 1,873 set on Dec. 4 of last year while also tying the previous high figure for ICU patients, at 151. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. It also easily set a record of active cases, at 21,385. Those numbers, propelled by a surge of m...