A 'parallel pandemic': The psychosocial burden of COVID-19 in children and adolescents

Maria C Cardenas¹, Samyd S Bustos^{2

3}, Rana Chakraborty^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
³ Center for Regenerative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

Maria C Cardenas et al. Acta Paediatr. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;109(11):2187-2188.

doi: 10.1111/apa.15536. Epub 2020 Sep 17.

Maria C Cardenas¹, Samyd S Bustos^{2

3}, Rana Chakraborty^{1

4}

¹ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
³ Center for Regenerative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflict of interest to disclose.

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