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. 2020 Aug;105(8):810-811.
doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319654. Epub 2020 Jun 9.

Disappearing act: COVID-19 and paediatric emergency department attendances

Lisa Dann  1 , John Fitzsimons  1 , Kathleen M Gorman  2   3 , Jonathan Hourihane  1   4 , Ikechukwu Okafor  5
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Disappearing act: COVID-19 and paediatric emergency department attendances

Lisa Dann et al. Arch Dis Child. 2020 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: health services research; virology.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Presentations correlating with public health response phases. Yellow denotes the containment phase; green denotes the delay phase; and red denotes the stay-at-home phase). Arrows indicate first case, school closure and commencement of stay-at-home phase. ED, emergency department.
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