The challenges of doing paediatric research during the first year of the covid-19 pandemic

At the beginning of 2020, healthcare professionals were facing an unexpected surge in covid-19 cases that put pressure on all healthcare systems, whose capacity was often exceeded.1 For paediatricians, at least initially, SARS-CoV-2 infection seemed more of an organisational problem than a clinical one. The available data from China about children with covid-19 were reassuring—children were rarely infected, severe cases were occasional, and no deaths were reported. In response, paediatricians from multiple subspecialties quickly started doing research within a new, challenging environment. Existing and new regional research networks joined their efforts and created innovative global consortiums to investigate the spectrum of paediatric covid-19, spontaneously modelling a new paradigm of paediatric international research. These authors share their personal and scientific insights as clinicians, citizens, and researchers.Sebastián González-Dambrauskas (Uruguay), says, “Scientific cooperation and research among paediatric intensivists in the Americas and across the world has thrived during the pandemic. This was possible…
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