In the spring of 2020, Dr. Jeanne Noble witnessed an uptick in teens and adolescents going to the emergency room in mental health distress. Dr. Noble is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the director of the COVID-19 response for UCSF's emergency department. In the fall of 2020, she gave a presentation to Alameda County's Public Health Department showing data that demonstrated an increase in the number of kids who were screening positive for suicidal thoughts in the ER. She wanted, she told me, to communicate how much kids were suffering and find a safe way to reopen schools.
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