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Editorial
. 2021 Dec 25:11:01010.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.01010. eCollection 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic in children and young people during 2020-2021: Learning about clinical presentation, patterns of spread, viral load, diagnosis and treatment

Igor Rudan  1 , Davies Adeloye  1 , Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi  2 , Josie Murray  3 , Colin Simpson  4   5 , Syed Ahmar Shah  5 , Chris Robertson  6 , Aziz Sheikh  5 ; EAVE II collaboration
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Editorial

The COVID-19 pandemic in children and young people during 2020-2021: Learning about clinical presentation, patterns of spread, viral load, diagnosis and treatment

Igor Rudan et al. J Glob Health. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: AS and CR are members of the Scottish Government’s CMO COVID-19 Advisory Group. IR is a member of the Croatian Government’s Scientific Committee on COVID-19 and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Health. AS and CR are members of NERVTAG’s risk stratification subgroup. CR is a member of SPI-M. AS is a member of AstraZeneca’s Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Advisory Group and the Scottish Government’s Standing Committee on Pandemics. SVK was co-chair of the Scottish Government’s Expert Reference Group on Ethnicity and COVID-19 and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) subgroup on ethnicity. All roles are unremunerated. All other co-authors report no conflict of interests.

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