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    Collateral Damage: Delayed Diagnoses in Kids During COVID-19

    Diabetes was by far the most common delayed pediatric presentation in emergency care during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a snapshot survey of nearly 2500 pediatricians in the UK and Ireland.

    There were also nine deaths where delayed presentation was considered a contributing factor, resulting mainly from sepsis and malignancy.

    By comparison, over the same 2-week period of the survey there were three child deaths from COVID-19 directly, according to senior study author Shamez Ladhani, MRCPCH, PhD, chair of the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, UK.

    "The unintended consequences of COVID are far greater, in children, than the disease itself. The way we are trying to prevent this is causing more harm than the disease," he lamented.


    https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/933585

 
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