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4 tips to help kids to cope with COVID-19 anxiety

  • Written by Steven Siegel, Professor and Chair, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California
imageOn the news channels, coverage of the pandemic seems 24/7. Getty Images / Chris Stein

The news coverage on COVID-19 is pervasive, persistent, and in my view as a professor of psychiatry, perilous. Sometimes it seems as though the pandemic is all we talk about.

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