Infectious Diseases

Millions of health care workers around the world have been put into extremely stressful situations because of COVID-19. A new research letter examines how the pandemic impacted the mental health of Italian health care workers.

Lack of information can make the unknown even more difficult to handle. To tackle children’s fears about COVID-19, the Smithsonian Science Education Center has created a guide to help children better understand the current situation.

As all pediatricians can attest, children are not just small adults. It's important to recognize that COVID-19 has a different disease course in pediatric patients and that COVID-19 can be severe.

Researchers looked at a series of patients who had COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and were admitted with cardiac involvement.

It was initially thought that children were primarily unaffected by COVID-19 and were asymptomatic carriers if they did have the disease. The rise of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has radically changed this thinking.

COVID-19 can lead to severe illness in patients with underlying health conditions. A research letter indicates that children who have pediatric cancer may not be at risk of more serious disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released an advisory for the newest issue in pediatric COVID-19 cases: multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).

COVID-19 has led to many changes in health care, including how children receive care. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examines how these changes have impacted vaccination.

COVID-19 had previously appeared to lead to a mild disease course in children, but recent news has altered that view. A new study looked at severe complications of the disease in children.

A new report in The Lancet covers 10 pediatric cases of the pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (PMIS). 

Past studies have shown COVID-19 to be milder in children. However, there have been a growing number of children in New York City and Long Island in New York who have developed a multisystem inflammatory syndrome as a result of the disease.

Data from China had indicated a milder disease course overall in pediatric cases and now new data from Italy continues to confirm that conclusion.

The front line of the COVID-19 pandemic is a dangerous place. A new study highlights just how many health care workers are at risk of poor outcomes.

As pediatric cases of COVID-19 grow, a new study warns that pediatric care centers could become overwhelmed.

The complete toll of self-isolation to flatten the curve of COVID-19 remains unknown, but a new research letter from China shows that stay-at-home measures have increased depression and anxiety symptoms among children.

A new study adds more evidence that COVID-19 tends to have a milder course of disease in children. Asymptomatic cases are also common in the pediatric population.

To keep health care providers safe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a collection of tips that guidelines for extending use, recommendations for extended use, reuse recommendations, and a look at the risks that reuse or extended use can carry.

A recent report from the University of Southern Florida in Tampa indicates that the number of children with COVID-19 could be more than previously thought.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, but many questions remain. Questions like: How are children coping with the trauma many families are currently experiencing in their family lives? Are schools and pediatric offices prepared to help children and adolescents cope with their losses?

Everyone has a slightly different take on the issues surrounding COVID-19 according to their practice, history, and a dozen other factors. These issues need to be addressed as a country.

Contemporary Pediatrics presents an on-demand webinar with pediatric experts that addresses the multitude of concerns arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The flu season appears to be tapering off, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The season has been a particularly harsh one for pediatric patients.

A new report on preliminary findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that pediatric cases of COVID-19 may not develop the hallmark symptoms of infection such as cough and fever.

Utilizing the current data known, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued guidance for caring for newborns who are born to mothers with COVID-19.

As hospital beds fill with patients battling COVID-19, the Children’s Hospital Association has issued guidance for consolidating pediatric patients in children ‘s hospitals to ease the burden.

COVID-19 is often mild in children, but severe and critical cases have been reported. Cases in children also strengthen the premise that disease is spread by human-to-human transmission.

Self-isolation to slow the spread of COVID-19 may have many families throwing out the American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines for media use. Some new guidance can help find a compromise between current needs and best practices.

The world in which we live, work, socialize, learn, and play has turned upside down and is spinning out of control, directly related to COVID-19. Numerous questions have emerged and more emerge every day: How do we make sense of our world that changes direction within a millisecond of time?

The White House announced an ambitious 15-day plan to slow the spread of COVID-19 across the United States.

A practicing pediatrician offers his take on the coronavirus situation from the ground here in the United States.