A pediatric perspective on World Sepsis Day in 2021: leveraging lessons from the pandemic to reduce the global pediatric sepsis burden? "

The World Sepsis Day on September 13 serves to remind the public, researchers, healthcare workers, and politicians that the enormous burden due to sepsis continues to adversely affect the health of humans of all ages across the globe. World Sepsis Day in 2021 sees a global community completely engulfed in the second year of the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, with over 200 million infected and over 4 million dead due to the virus. Over the course of the past 20 months, the pandemic has amplified the detrimental effect beyond direct health-related mortality and morbidity, into widespread economic crisis, massive unemployment, and disruptions of the social fabric that have created many uncertainties among the peoples in many countries. At the same time, the pandemic has triggered an unprecedented response at the global, national, and institutional levels to contain, treat, and prevent further waves of COVID-19 infection. The coordinated, often mandated health measures in response to COVID-19 were novel to postwar healthcare; for the first time we witnessed the extent and rapidity of collaboration to share data in real time through large databases and networks. Institutions thereby were able to learn from the experience of others and share information on highly effective improvement measures. These efforts were further enhanced by highly productive research consortiums driving from the bench to the bedside —ranging from studies on the genomics of host-pathogen interaction ...
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