COVID-19 Pandemic, Children, Pediatricians, and the Future

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (more widely known as COVID-19) appears to have made its global debut in December 2019 in China.1 To date (July 4, 2021), 172,612 publications regarding COVID-19 have been recognized by the United States National Library of Medicine (accessible through PubMed). To put into perspective the massive amount of work that this represents over such a short time, let us turn to the publications regarding the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), also a pandemic of enormous and continuing global recognition, importance, and cost.
Source: Pediatric Clinics of North America - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research