SCHOOLS CLOSURES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A Catastrophic Global Situation.

D. Buonsenso, D. Roland, C. De Rose, P. Vásquez-Hoyos, B. Ramly, Jessica Nandipa Chakakala-Chaziya, A. Munro, S. González-Dambrauskas

The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 2021

Accepted for publication December 13, 2020 From the *Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS; †Dipartimento di Scienze Biotecnologiche di Base, Cliniche Intensivologiche e Perioperatorie; ‡Center for Global Health Research and Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy; §SAPPHIRE Group, Health Sciences, Leicester University; ¶Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic (PEMLA) Group, Children’s Emergency Department, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, United Kingdom; ∥Universidad Nacional de Colobmia; **Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud; ††Sociedad de Cirugia Hospital de San Jose, Bogota, Colombia; ‡‡Raji Permasuri Bainun Hospital, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia; §§Pediatric Department, Muzu Central Hospital, Ministry of Health, Malawi; ¶¶NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust; ∥∥Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; ***Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos Especializados (CIPe), Casa de Galicia; and †††Red Colaborativa Pediátrica de Latinoamérica (LARed Network), Montevideo, Uruguay. The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose. Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal’s website (www.pidj.com). D.B. and D.R. are co-first authors Address for correspondence: Danilo Buonsenso, MD, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy. E-mail: danilobuonsenso@gmail.com. Copyright © 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Field of study: Medicine

10.1097/INF.0000000000003052