Team wants to compare how pandemic felt in Queensland and Victoria

Life under lockdown and other consequences of coronavirus affected youth around the world in different ways.

Now, researchers from Queensland and Victoria are looking into whether young people from their respective states were affected differently by their contrasting pandemic experiences.

Victoria endured months of hard lockdown as cases climbed over the course of 2020. Queensland went through several weeks of lockdowns, but spent most of the latter half of 2020 with residents able to leave their homes.

Researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Swinburne University of Technology…