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Comment
. 2021 Sep 27;193(38):E1500-E1502.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.211513.

Protecting Canada's children from the consequences of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

Stephen B Freedman  1 , James D Kellner  2
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Protecting Canada's children from the consequences of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

Stephen B Freedman et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Stephen Freedman’s research is supported by the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation Professorship in Child Health and Wellness. James Kellner is a member of the data safety monitoring board for a COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial sponsored by the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan; a Leadership Group member, Co-Chair of the Field Studies Working Party and Chair of the Pediatric Network for the Federal COVID-19 Immunity Task Force; and advisor to the Deputy Minister of Health and the Chief Medical Officer of Health as a member of the Alberta Advisory Committee on Immunization. No other competing interests were declared.

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  • Characteristics of children admitted to hospital with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in Canada in 2020.
    Drouin O, Hepburn CM, Farrar DS, Baerg K, Chan K, Cyr C, Donner EJ, Embree JE, Farrell C, Forgie S, Giroux R, Kang KT, King M, Laffin M, Luu TM, Orkin J, Papenburg J, Pound CM, Price VE, Purewal R, Sadarangani M, Salvadori MI, Top KA, Viel-Thériault I, Kakkar F, Morris SK; Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program COVID-19 Study Team. Drouin O, et al. CMAJ. 2021 Sep 27;193(38):E1483-E1493. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.210053. CMAJ. 2021. PMID: 34580141 Free PMC article.

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