The Urgency of Normal document, signed by over 1000 healthcare professionals details the challenges children have faced over the course of the pandemic and calls for a return to normal. This has understandably been a source of controversy in the medical community, among policy makers, and school administrators. Drs. Carol Vidal, Child Psychiatrist and Lucy McBride, MD, Internist and mental health advocate advocate – two of the documents authors, – will be discussing the mental health and epidemiological factors that went into this position and will be answering audience questions.