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epidemic

[ep-i-dem-ik] / ˌɛp ɪˈdɛm ɪk /




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CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has stepped in and provided £40m of funding for the trial.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Jonathan Haidt had a moment last year with his book “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

In another video, "What's Behind the Estrangement Epidemic?"

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” has become a handbook for the phones-free schools movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2024

In September, 1895, Dr. Forbes Winslow, of New York, read a paper before the medico-legal congress which was then in session in that city upon the subject of "Suicide as a Mental Epidemic."

From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various




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