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During the pandemic, emergency rooms across the country reported an increase in visits from teenage girls dealing with eating and other disorders, including anxiety, depression and stress, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report provides new detail about the kinds of mental health issues affecting a generation of adolescents.

Mental health experts hypothesize that the pandemic prompted some youth to feel isolated, lonely and out-of-control. Some coped by seeking to have control over their own behavior, said Emily Pluhar, a pediatric psychologist at Boston Childrens Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School.

You take a very vulnerable group and put on a global pandemic, she said. The eating disorders are out of control.

In the C.D.C. study, the agency said that the proportion of eating disorder visits doubled among teenage girls, set off by pandemic-related risk factors, like the lack of structure in daily routine, emotional distress and changes in food availability.

The agency said that the increase in tic disorders was atypical, as these disorders often present earlier, and are more common in boys. But the C.D.C., reinforcing speculation from other clinicians and researchers, said that some teenage girls may be developing tics after seeing the phenomenon spread widely on social media, notably on TikTok.

Stress of the pandemic or exposure to severe tics, highlighted on social media platforms, might be associated with increases in visits with tics and tic-like behavior among adolescent females, the C.D.C. wrote.

In a related report, the C.D.C. also said on Friday that the increase in visits for mental health issues occurred as emergency rooms reported sharp declines overall in visits during the pandemic. As compared with 2019, overall visits fell by 51 percent in 2020 and by 22 percent in 2021, declines that the agency attributed in part to families delaying care, and a drop in physical injuries from activities like swimming and running.

There was a decline in overall emergency room visits for mental health conditions among all youths, up to age 17. Increases occurred for particular maladies, and particularly among teenage girls.

More broadly, the surge in adolescent mental health distress appears to have intensified during the pandemic, but it began earlier. Emergency room visits among youths related to depression, anxiety and similar issues rose by 28 percent from 2007 to 2018, according to another report by the surgeon general.

In its report on Friday, the C.D.C. said that mental health-related emergency room visits for teenage boys fell in both 2020 and 2021 as compared with 2019. But the C.D.C. also reported that the data was nuanced and that the visitation patterns for boys, as well as girls, depended on specific mental health condition and time period.

These sex differences might represent differences in need, recognition and health care-seeking behavior, the C.D.C. wrote.

For teenage girls, weekly emergency room visits rose for eating and tic disorders during 2020; and for those conditions and obsessive compulsive disorders in 2021. During January of 2022, the C.D.C. said there also was an increase in anxiety, trauma and stress-related issues.

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USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg is using the guise of traffic safety to compel an end to one of America's most iconic freedoms to drive where, when and how one wants to, host Laura Ingraham warned in her "Ingraham Angle" commentary.

Federal transportation agencies misleadingly used a double-digit increase in traffic deaths year-to-year in 2021 as part of the reason why traffic safety must be improved in the way Buttigieg sees fit, though ignoring the fact the same liberal politicians kept Americans locked down and off the roads in 2020, which could explain the spike, Ingraham said.

She pointed how Buttigieg recently called the problem with increased traffic deaths a "war," saying that makes Buttigieg "our general."

President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

"The climate change crazies that control the Biden agenda were never happier than in the spring of 2020: Businesses shuttered, people stopped commuting and they started ordering DoorDash while binge-watching their days away. But now that people are slowly getting back to the office, even in blue states, they want to make permanent the new normal feeling of the pandemic glory days by making private vehicle ownership increasingly difficult for average Americans," Ingraham said.

"And the sick thing is they're concealing their plans by wrapping them in the noble goal of reducing traffic accidents and fatalities."

With highways like Interstate 95 again clogged with traffic from Brickell to Boston, and Americans again enjoying iconic "open roads" like the Blue Ridge Parkway, the left seeks to end such freedoms, Ingraham said.

"This is the vision of America they hate, right along with the house in the suburbs, big families, SUV/gas guzzlers, church on Sunday and their perfect world where climate trumps personal liberty," she said.

A traffic jam in Los Angeles.

"They'll be able to keep tabs on you, even limiting how far you drive, if necessary, in emergencies, even redirecting your route to a safer destination or have been far easier than trying to tow those big rigs and Ottawa."

One of the reasons Buttigieg and others push for electric vehicles is that they can't go nearly the distance as internal combustion engines. Battery recharging is needed more often than a fill-up, and takes exponentially longer.

"You have to wonder about the soundness of Biden's big, heavy push when the king of electric cars, Elon Musk, came out against his build back better plan despite the fact that it was loaded with handouts and subsidies," she said.

"Yet the left's quest to transform America's car culture it's not just about swapping out the gas-powered vehicles for the electric vehicles. No, no, no. It's about taking millions of cars off the roads altogether. Now that becomes obvious when you read the dirty details of Biden's national road safety strategy Buttigieg was talking about. They released it last month."

Buttigieg said his goal is zero U.S. traffic fatalities, which Ingraham called "ludicrous" along with rightly noting that every highway death is tragic, but that such a goal is as untenable as "zero COVID".

A wide open US Route 222 approaches an interchange near Kutztown, Pa., September 29, 2021. (Fox News/Charles Creitz)

She pointed to Colorado, where in order for municipalities to expand highway infrastructure, they have to offset that action with green infrastructure like bike trails, HOV lanes or electric vehicle chargers.

"If local governments exceed their emissions budgets, the state can withhold funding for roads," she read from one report.

"OK. These are truly sick people. Because their rules always hurt the little guy as the elites get a fast pass to wherever they want to go."

Collectively, this is why Buttigieg, Biden and the rest of the left actually like seeing the price of fuel continue to spike, Ingraham added it costs more to drive and disproportionately affects the lower- and middle-classes, which the left hopes will simply stay home as they did in 2020:

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"Mayor Pete thinks you should be happy car-less at home, maybe planning your herb garden or hitting the bike trail in the afternoons, maybe using one of those zip cars if you really insist on traveling around town," Ingraham said.

"As with every issue, the goal of the Biden team is not to make your life better. It's to force you to behave better, to leave the old notions of freedom behind."

"They don't even like the word freedom anymore while they, though, remain free to go wherever and do whatever, they darn well please."

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Canadian Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for "driving division" in Canada Wednesday on "The Ingraham Angle."

Trudeau responded to Lantsman, who is Jewish, by saying Conservative Party members "can stand with people who wave swastikas."

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"Look, this is not a surprise to me," she told host Laura Ingraham. "You just said it. This is his true colors. I sit there and watch him divide and wedge and stigmatize Canadians every single day. And today, the rest of Canada saw a G-7 prime minister go after a Jewish member of parliament, and then walk away and not apologize."

Lantsman said she expects an apology.

She added that "words matter," and Trudeau's words led to "an influx of people calling you a Nazi, and that's not OK."

She laid such divisive rhetoric at his feet, saying Canada is "in trouble and he's lost control of the situation."

" [T]o watch what is happening and what the prime minister is driving in this country is frankly egregious."

Canada's divisions are manifold, from an "urban-rural divide," "East-West divide," and "the highest, most draconian" COVID-19 restrictions despite "one of the highest" vaccination rates, Lantsman said.

"I'm the party's transport critic, so we've been calling to an end to these mandates, particularly the cross-border trucking mandate, since earlier this year."

Instead of declaring an unjustified national emergency and demonizing the unvaccinated as racist misogynists, Trudeau "could have gone out and talked to people," she continued.

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" [A]nd we could have put an end to this. He can drop the mandates and he can drop the restrictions today. And I think that we will have a much more cohesive country."

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Join NOVA and STAT for a discussion on the documentary Augmented, exploring the pioneering amputation surgery described in the film and new advances in brain-controlled prosthetic limbs.

You'll hear from key players in the film about their research and experiences, and with them, we'll look toward what's next.

Featured speakers:Jim Ewing, eponymous recipient of the Ewing AmputationHugh Herr, Ph.D., professor, MITMatthew Orr, assistant professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communication, Northwestern University; director, AugmentedShriya Srinivasan, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Society of Fellows, Harvard UniversityJulia Cort, co-executive producer, NOVA (partner introduction)Gideon Gil, managing editor, STAT (moderator)

NOVAs Augmented premieres on Wednesday, February 23 at 9/8c on PBS. Or watch it on the PBS Video app or online.

Funding for NOVA is provided by Brilliant.org, the David H. Koch Fund for Science, the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers. NOVA is a production of GBH.

This event is presented by NOVA in partnership with STAT.

This virtual event will begin at 1pm Eastern Standard Time.

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Japan is to ease its strict border controls from next month, media reports said on Thursday, after criticism from students, workers and family members who have been in effect locked out of the country for up to two years.

The restrictions, which limit arrivals to Japanese citizens and returning foreign residents, have affected 150,000 students, triggering accusations from politicians and business leaders that the ban is damaging the countrys economy and international image.

Japan briefly relaxed the rules last year but tightened them again in November in an attempt to prevent the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

The opening up will be incremental, however, and will not apply to tourists. The prime minister, Fumio Kishida, is expected to announce later on Thursday an increase in daily arrivals from 3,500 to 5,000, as well as a reduction in quarantine from a week to three days for people with a negative test result and proof they have had a booster shot.

We are considering how to ease the border control measures by taking into account scientific evidence that has become available regarding the Omicron strain and the changing infection situations at home and abroad, the chief cabinet secretary, Hirokazu Matsuno, said, according to the Kyodo news agency.

Kishida had appeared reluctant to relax the measures, which are popular with the public, ahead of upper house elections in July.

But he has come under pressure from business leaders who said the restrictions amounted to a seclusion policy that would worsen Japans chronic labour shortage. Member of Kishidas own party said the ban was pointless given that Omicron had become the dominant strain in Japan.

If you look at the overall situation now, theyre meaningless; you can get the virus anywhere. But as a result of having [the restrictions], [Kishida] got a lot of public support, said political analyst Atsuo Ito.

Failure to lift at least some restrictions would risk seeing Japan being left behind by the rest of the world, he added.

Government health experts said a sixth wave of the virus fuelled by Omicron had peaked earlier this month after data showed week-on-week falls in new infections in most age groups.

While new cases are trending down, Japans most recent wave of infections has taken a toll on more vulnerable people, with a record 236 deaths reported on Tuesday.

Only about 10% of the population has received a booster jab, compared with more than 50% in South Korea and Singapore, prompting Kishida to announce a daily target of 1m third shots a day.

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