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Relationship between national changes in mobility due to non-pharmaceutical interventions and emergency department visits due to pediatric acute respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2022-06-17 pediatrics Title + abstract only
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BackgroundStrong social distancing measures were quickly implemented in Chile during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. One of the aims of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) mandates was to decrease overcrowding, thus is usually measured as mobility changes. Methodswe gather data from national health statistics for pediatric emergency (PED) visits for acute respiratory infection (ARI) in children younger than 15. We defined a historical cohort, including data from 2016 to 2019, and compared them with...

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