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TikTok is giving our children Tourette’s

The pandemic has hit our children even harder than we thought

9 September 2023

9:00 AM

9 September 2023

9:00 AM

Shortly after the first Covid lockdown ended, doctors began to notice something so strange that at first they struggled to explain it. There appeared to be a sudden rise in the number of children being referred with Tourette’s syndrome.

Tourette’s is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by repetitive, involuntary movements or sounds called ‘tics’.

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