The impact of Covid-19 on children

Dr Harad, what impact do you think coronavirus and clear concerns about coronavirus have had on the impact of children in this crisis? As a consultant working in emergency departments, we noted now there is a reduced number of patients who come to emergency departments, either because patients or families are staying home so that's reduced the risk of catching the infections or people trying to avoid coming to the emergency department. But for sure when we look at the internet data for children who came quite sick when I was working in North London, some of the children who presented to the emergency department quite late and that put those children into a higher risk. They were having fever for examples for a few days and then when they presented turned out they suffered from sepsis and they were quite sick, needed to be put to sleep and intubated and transferred to intensive care and they stayed for days saying that they could if they could have presented early the outcome could have changed so I think if I'm going to send one message is if you think your child is sick or you're not happy don't think twice come to emergency departments we have our way to try to avoid mixing patients who they have risk of having Covid so we try to isolate them so if your child is sick and you think you need to see your physician just come to the hospital.