• The study found that those 16-year-olds had brains that appeared “several years” older than 16-year-olds who were assessed before pandemic restrictions began.
• Those individuals also had more severe mental health problems.
• Meanwhile, other reports indicate that children in red states, who were more likely to have less time away from in-person instruction, are doing much better academically than their blue state counterparts, who were more likely to have online schooling during the pandemic.

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