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Pediatricians are ready for COVID‐19 and other emergencies
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30465
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , medical emergency , statement (logic) , medicine , emergency medical services , political science , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , disease , pathology , law
In January — just as COVID‐19 was on the verge of being a worldwide pandemic — the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and emergency medicine associations released a joint policy statement, “Pediatric Readiness in Emergency Medical Services Systems,” designed to bolster the emergency medical system so that children are well cared for.