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death toll nears 100,000, the coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating effect on Americans’ mental health.

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New cases of the novel coronavirus have been surging in Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte.

“I think it’s unimaginable at this point,” said Wang, who works in health policy but is enrolling in medical school this fall.

A third of Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression, Census Bureau data shows, the most definitive and alarming sign yet of the psychological toll exacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

When asked questions normally used to screen patients for mental health problems, 24 percent showed clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30 percent showed symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

Twenty percent of U.S.

teachers say they are not likely to return to their classrooms this fall if schools reopen — and most parents and educators believe that school buildings will open, according to polls published Tuesday.

The polls — one taken of K-12 teachers and the other of parents with school-age children — found that 73 percent of parents and 64 percent of teachers said they believe that children will eventually make up for learning lost because of the disruption of school during the coronavirus crisis.

And 63 percent of parents and 65 percent of teachers said they believe school buildings in their areas will reopen this fall.

While the lockdown slowed the spread of the novel coronavirus, experts say, it did not succeed in flattening the curve.

Christi Grimm, HHS’s principal deputy inspector general, spoke out for the first time since she was excoriated by the president for a report from her office that found “severe shortages” earlier this spring of supplies to help hospitals cope with the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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