Schools Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Catastrophic Global Situation

Danilo Buonsenso^{1

2

3}, Damian Roland^{4

5}, Cristina De Rose¹, Pablo Vásquez-Hoyos^{6

7

8}, Bazlin Ramly⁹, Jessica Nandipa Chakakala-Chaziya¹⁰, Alasdair Munro^{11

12}, Sebastián González-Dambrauskas^{13

14}

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS.
² Dipartimento di Scienze Biotecnologiche di Base, Cliniche Intensivologiche e Perioperatorie.
³ Center for Global Health Research and Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
⁴ SAPPHIRE Group, Health Sciences, Leicester University.
⁵ Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic (PEMLA) Group, Children's Emergency Department, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, United Kingdom.
⁶ Universidad Nacional de Colobmia.
⁷ Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud.
⁸ Sociedad de Cirugia Hospital de San Jose, Bogota, Colombia.
⁹ Raji Permasuri Bainun Hospital, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
¹⁰ Pediatric Department, Muzu Central Hospital, Ministry of Health, Malawi.
¹¹ NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
¹² Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
¹³ Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos Especializados (CIPe), Casa de Galicia.
¹⁴ Red Colaborativa Pediátrica de Latinoamérica (LARed Network), Montevideo, Uruguay.

Danilo Buonsenso et al. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2021.

. 2021 Apr 1;40(4):e146-e150.

doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003052.

¹ From the Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS.
² Dipartimento di Scienze Biotecnologiche di Base, Cliniche Intensivologiche e Perioperatorie.
³ Center for Global Health Research and Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
⁴ SAPPHIRE Group, Health Sciences, Leicester University.
⁵ Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic (PEMLA) Group, Children's Emergency Department, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, United Kingdom.
⁶ Universidad Nacional de Colobmia.
⁷ Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud.
⁸ Sociedad de Cirugia Hospital de San Jose, Bogota, Colombia.
⁹ Raji Permasuri Bainun Hospital, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
¹⁰ Pediatric Department, Muzu Central Hospital, Ministry of Health, Malawi.
¹¹ NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
¹² Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
¹³ Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos Especializados (CIPe), Casa de Galicia.
¹⁴ Red Colaborativa Pediátrica de Latinoamérica (LARed Network), Montevideo, Uruguay.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.

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