PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Monday night’s mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University is once again shining a light on all the stresses and levels of heightened anxiety that teens and young adults are facing every day. The shooting killed three MSU students – Arielle Anderson, Brian Fraser, and Alexandria Verner – and critically injured five others.
During the press conference at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing on Tuesday morning, Dr. Denny Martin broke down describing the scene of his fellow doctors having to tend to the injured student.
Earlier in the day on Monday, the CDC released a report on how teen girls are experiencing an especially high amount of anxiety surrounding not just violence, but the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“We're seeing more and more studies, especially with young people talking about their anxiety, their depression, their fears, and certainly, the pandemic has done things as well,” KYW’s Medical Editor, Dr. Brian McDonough said.
“These types of events – they're not just something you'd see on TV, or you see from a distance.”
“They're happening all over the country on a routine basis, and the security that a young adult would have or a child would have of going to school,” he added. “There's a degree of supervision and there's the problems that would occur with the normal day-to-day things that have been eroded.
To hear more of this conversation, including what issues the medical field is facing, you can listen to it here: