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. 2020 Jun 3:ciaa710. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa710

COVID-19 pandemic: Impact caused by school closure and national lockdown on pediatric visits and admissions for viral and non-viral infections, a time series analysis

François Angoulvant 1,2,, Naïm Ouldali 3,4,5, David Dawei Yang 1,2, Mathilde Filser 6, Vincent Gajdos 7,8, Alexis Rybak 9, Romain Guedj 10,11, Valérie Soussan-Banini 12, Romain Basmaci 13,14, Alain Lefevre-Utile 15,16, Dominique Brun-Ney 17,18, Laure Beaujouan 17,18, David Skurnik 6,19,20
PMCID: PMC7314162  PMID: 33501967

Abstract

A time series analysis of 871,543 pediatric emergency visits revealed that the COVID-19 lockdown and school closure were associated with a significant decrease in infectious diseases disseminated through airborne or fecal-oral transmissions: common cold, gastro-enteritis, bronchiolitis, acute otitis. No change was found for urinary tract infections.

Keywords: covid-19, lockdown, epidemic, pediatric, emergency


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