JAMA Pediatrics —The Year in Review, 2023

For a solid 3 years, COVID-19 commandeered academic publishing. Academic submissions, however, at least for now, seem to be a lagging indicator of the pandemic. While society has lurched back toward normalcy, we are still receiving papers trying to make sense of what we have been through retrospectively. In some ways, more recent papers include studies that are more salient. They have longer follow-up, have larger sample sizes, and have evaluated the effects of more recent strains of the virus. But other reports seem out of date or not clinically informative. For example, we still receive many papers about multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, even though that syndrome seems to have thankfully and inexplicably largely disappeared. And we still receive papers trying to assess and interpret the impact of school closures on viral spread.
Source: JAMA Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research