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Campbell, D. and Bannock, C. 2021. “Up to 100 UK children a week hospitalised with rare post-Covid disease.” The Guardian UK, Fri 5 Feb 2021

Up to 100 children a week are being hospitalised with a rare disease that can emerge weeks after Covid-19, leaving them in intensive care, doctors have said. In a phenomenon that is worrying paediatricians, 75% of the children worst affected by paediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome (PIMS) were black, Asian or ethnic minority (BAME). Almost four […]

Auger, K.A., Shah, S.S., et al. 2020. “Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US.” JAMA. 2020;324(9):859–870.

Question  Was statewide school closure associated with decreased incidence and mortality for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Findings  In this US population–based time series analysis conducted between March 9, 2020, and May 7, 2020, school closure was associated with a significant decline in both incidence of COVID-19 (adjusted relative change per week, −62%) and mortality (adjusted relative change […]