Pediatricians and Parents on the Brink: This Is Their March 2020

December 6, 2022

(STAT News) – In March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the United States, the nation’s pediatric providers and pediatric units immediately pitched in to treat adults sickened by this then-mysterious and deadly disease. But now that the pediatric community is facing its own March 2020 with the confluence of Covid-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the response from outside this community has been slow. That says volumes about how the U.S. prioritizes — or more accurately doesn’t prioritize — the health of children. (Read More)