This collection highlights articles Children's Mercy has produced in relation to both COVID-19 and the impact the coronavirus has had on medical practice during the pandemic.

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Posters from 2021

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COVID-19 vaccination in individuals with cystic fibrosis at a pediatric cystic fibrosis center, Christopher M. Oermann, Claire Elson, Ellen Meier, Paula Capel, Jessica Haynes, Michelle Fischer, and Stephanie Duehlmeyer (Poster)

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Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA Vaccination Against COVID-19 Hospitalization Among Persons Aged 12-18 Years - United States, June-September 2021., Samantha M. Olson, Margaret M. Newhams, Natasha B. Halasa, Ashley M. Price, Julie A. Boom, Leila C. Sahni, Katherine Irby, Tracie C. Walker, Stephanie P. Schwartz, Pia S. Pannaraj, Aline B. Maddux, Tamara T. Bradford, Ryan A. Nofziger, Benjamin J. Boutselis, Melissa L. Cullimore, Elizabeth H. Mack, Jennifer E. Schuster, Shira J. Gertz, Natalie Z. Cvijanovich, Michele Kong, Melissa A. Cameron, Mary A. Staat, Emily R. Levy, Brandon M. Chatani, Kathleen Chiotos, Laura D. Zambrano, Angela P. Campbell, Manish M. Patel, Adrienne G. Randolph, and Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators (Article)

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Ten Rules for Implementation of a Telemedicine Program to Care for Patients with Asthma., Yudy K. Persaud and Jay M. Portnoy (Article)

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Understanding Drug Development: A Primer on the Food and Drug Administration., Amol V. Purandare (Article)

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Survey of Telemedicine by Pediatric Nephrologists During the COVID-19 Pandemic., Rupesh Raina, Nikhil Nair, Hui Kim Yap, Guido Filler, Sidharth K. Sethi, Arvind Bagga, Pankaj Hari, Timothy Bunchman, Sharon Bartosh, Katherine Twombley, Gaurav Kapur, Mignon McCulloch, Bradley A. Warady, Maria Díaz-González de Ferris, and Sarah Rush (Article)

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Parenting Pressures Among Academic Pediatricians During the COVID-19 Pandemic., Kimberly A Randell, Anita K. Patel, and Hina J. Talib (Article)

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Promoting COVID-19 Vaccination on Social Media., Fajar Raza and John Lantos (Article)

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The Yin and the Yang of Transformative Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic-A Perspective., Venkatesh Sampath and Ramani Ramchandran (Article)

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COVID-19 in Children-Not Just Little Adults., Jennifer E. Schuster and Annabelle de St Maurice (Response or Comment)

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Enterovirus D68-Associated Acute Respiratory Illness ─ New Vaccine Surveillance Network, United States, July-November 2018-2020., Melisa M. Shah, Ariana Perez, Joana Y. Lively, Vasanthi Avadhanula, Julie A. Boom, James Chappell, Janet A. Englund, Wende Fregoe, Natasha B. Halasa, Christopher J. Harrison, Robert W. Hickey, Eileen J. Klein, Monica M. McNeal, Marian G. Michaels, Mary Moffatt, Catherine Otten, Leila C. Sahni, Elizabeth Schlaudecker, Jennifer E. Schuster, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Mary A. Staat, Laura S. Stewart, Geoffrey A. Weinberg, John V. Williams, Terry Fan Fei Ng, Janell A. Routh, Susan I. Gerber, Meredith L. McMorrow, Brian Rha, and Claire M. Midgley (Article)

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The use of telemedicine for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine update., Qurratul Afifa Shamim-Uzzaman, Charles J. Bae, Zarmina Ehsan MD, Arveity R. Setty, Michelle Devine, Swati Dhankikar, Innessa Donskoy, Barry Fields, Hunter Hearn, Dennis Hwang, Vikas Jain, Dennis Kelley, Douglas B. Kirsch, William Martin, Matthew Troester, Lynn Marie Trotti, Christine H. Won, and Lawrence J. Epstein (Article)

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Comparison of nasal swab and saliva specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in children, Aaron Shaw (Poster Presentation)

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Physicians’ Burnout: A First Step to Development of a Wellness Curriculum, Tyler Smith, Katherine E. Mason, David D. Williams, and Kadriye O. Lewis (Poster)

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Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children - Initial Therapy and Outcomes., Mary Beth F. Son, Nancy Murray, Kevin Friedman, Cameron C. Young, Margaret M. Newhams, Leora R. Feldstein, Laura L. Loftis, Keiko M. Tarquinio, Aalok R. Singh, Sabrina M. Heidemann, Vijaya L. Soma, Becky J. Riggs, Julie C. Fitzgerald, Michele Kong, Sule Doymaz, John S. Giuliano, Michael A. Keenaghan, Janet R. Hume, Charlotte V. Hobbs, Jennifer E. Schuster, Katharine N. Clouser, Mark W. Hall, Lincoln S. Smith, Steven M. Horwitz, Stephanie P. Schwartz, Katherine Irby, Tamara T. Bradford, Aline B. Maddux, Christopher J. Babbitt, Courtney M. Rowan, Gwenn E. McLaughlin, Phoebe H. Yager, Mia Maamari, Elizabeth H. Mack, Christopher L. Carroll, Vicki L. Montgomery, Natasha B. Halasa, Natalie Z. Cvijanovich, Bria M. Coates, Charles E. Rose, Jane W. Newburger, Manish M. Patel, Adrienne G. Randolph, and Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators (Article)

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Online Echocardiography Modules for Pediatric Cardiology Fellows, Sarah Studyvin, Doaa Aly, Tyler Johnson, Laura Kuzava, Alison Samrany, Nitin Madan, and Sanket Shah (Poster Presentation)

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Online Echocardiography Modules for Pediatric Cardiology Fellows, Sarah Studyvin, Doaa Aly, Laura Kuzava, Tyler Johnson, Alison Samrany, Nitin Madan, and Sanket Shah (Poster)

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Healthcare Encounter and Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Children's Hospitals., David C. Synhorst, Jessica L. Bettenhausen, Matt Hall, Cary Thurm, Samir S. Shah, Katherine A. Auger, Derek J. Williams, Rustin Morse, and Jay G. Berry (Article)

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Innovating and adapting in pediatric pulmonology and sleep medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: ATS pediatric assembly web committee consensus statement for initial COVID-19 virtual response., Jane B. Taylor, Christopher M. Oermann, Robin R. Deterding, Gregory Redding, Stephanie D. Davis, Joseph Piccione, Paul E. Moore, Oren Kupfer, Maria Teresa Santiago, Margaret Rosenfeld, David G. Ingram MD, Kristie Ross, and Emily M. DeBoer (Article)

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COVID-19 in pediatric kidney transplantation: The Improving Renal Outcomes Collaborative., Charles Varnell, Lyndsay A. Harshman, Laurie Smith, Chunyan Liu, Shiran Chen, Samhar Al-Akash, Gina-Marie Barletta, Craig Belsha, Paul Brakeman, Abanti Chaudhuri, Paul Fadakar, Rouba Garro, Caroline Gluck, Jens Goebel, David Kershaw, Debora Matossian, Corina Nailescu, Hiren P. Patel, Cozumel Pruette, Saritha Ranabothu, Nancy Rodig, Jodi Smith, Judith Sebestyen VanSickle, Patricia Weng, Lara Danziger-Isakov, David K. Hooper, and Michael Seifert (Article)

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Immune cell residency in the nasal mucosa may partially explain respiratory disease severity across the age range., Konner Winkley, Dithi Banerjee, Todd Bradley, Boryana Koseva, Warren A. Cheung, Rangaraj Selvarangan, T Pastinen, and Elin Grundberg (Article)

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Exploration and Ethical Analysis of Open-label Pediatric Vaccine Trials in a Pandemic., Ian D. Wolfe, Angira Patel, Larry K. Kociolek, Asma Fazal, Ravi Jhaveri, and John Lantos (Article)

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Improving Access to Spanish COVID-19 Resources at a Children’s Hospital, Fernando Zapata, Romina Barral, July K. Jean Cuevas, Lines Vargas Collado, Nicholas Clark, Amanda Montalbano, and Cristina Fernandez (Poster)

Works from 2020

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Intravenous Immune Globulin Uses in the Fetus and Neonate: A Review., Mahdi Alsaleem (Article)

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Should Pediatric Patients Be Prioritized When Rationing Life-Saving Treatments During COVID-19 Pandemic., Ryan M. Antiel, Farr A. Curlin, Govind Persad, Douglas B. White, Cathy Zhang, Aaron Glickman, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and John Lantos (Article)

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Policies and practices of SHEA Research Network hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic., Michael S. Calderwood, Valerie M. Deloney, Deverick J. Anderson, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng, Shruti Gohil, Jennie H. Kwon, Lona Mody, Elizabeth Monsees, Valerie M. Vaughn, Timothy L. Wiemken, Matthew J. Ziegler, and Eric Lofgren (Article)

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Children’s Mercy COVID-19 venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylactic guidelines, Children's Mercy Kansas City

Pediatric Provider Well-Being and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Melanie Cole and Jennifer Bickel (Podcast)

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Mental Health Needs during COVID-19: Responses in Pediatric Health Care, Deborah Dokken, Elizabeth Ahmann, DeeJo Miller, and Jamila Weaver (Article)

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic sleep medicine., Zarmina Ehsan MD (Letter to the Editor)

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Management of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated With COVID-19: A Survey From the International Kawasaki Disease Registry., Matthew D. Elias, Brian W. McCrindle, Guillermo Larios, Nadine F. Choueiter, Nagib Dahdah, Ashraf S. Harahsheh, Supriya Jain, Cedric Manlhiot, Michael A. Portman, Geetha Raghuveer, Therese M. Giglia, Audrey Dionne, and International Kawasaki Disease Registry (Article)

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Use of telemedicine to provide clinical pharmacy services during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic., Claire Elson, Christopher M. Oermann, Stephanie Duehlmeyer, and Sarah Bledsoe (Letter to the Editor)

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Pediatric Palliative Care in a Pandemic: Role Obligations, Moral Distress, and the Care You Can Give., Amanda M. Evans, Monique Jonas, and John Lantos (Article)

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Seeking Normalcy as the Curve Flattens: Ethical Considerations for Pediatricians Managing Collateral Damage of Coronavirus Disease-2019., Dalia M. Feltman, Gregory P. Moore, Andrew F. Beck, Emily Siffermann, Carlo Bellieni, and John Lantos (Article)

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More than Warm Fuzzy Feelings: The Imperative of Institutional Morale in Hospital Pandemic Responses., Jeremy R. Garrett and Leslie Ann McNolty (Response or Comment)

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Our Next Pandemic Ethics Challenge? Allocating "Normal" Health Care Services., Jeremy R. Garrett, Leslie Ann McNolty, Ian D. Wolfe, and John Lantos (Article)

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Ellen Grass Lecture: Wellness for Allied Healthcare Professionals in the Age of COVID-19, Ara Hall (Article)

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Should Extremely Premature Babies Get Ventilators During the COVID-19 Crisis?, Marlyse F. Haward, Annie Janvier, Gregory P. Moore, Naomi Laventhal, Jessica T. Fry, and John Lantos (Article)

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Paediatric ethical issues during the COVID-19 pandemic are not just about ventilator triage., Marlyse F. Haward, Gregory P. Moore, John Lantos, and Annie Janvier (Article)

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COVID-19 Trial Enrollment for Those Who Cannot Consent: Ethical Challenges Posed by a Pandemic., Samantha A. House, Catherine D. Shubkin, Tim Lahey, Jeffrey P. Brosco, and John Lantos (Article)

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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Treatment of Severe Pulmonary and Cardiac Compromise in Coronavirus Disease 2019: Experience with 32 Patients., Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Alfred H. Stammers, James St Louis, J W Awori Hayanga, Michael S. Firstenberg, Linda B. Mongero, Eric A. Tesdahl, Keshava Rajagopal, Faisal H. Cheema, Tom Coley, Vinay Badhwar, Anthony K. Sestokas, and Marvin J. Slepian (Article)

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Medically Vulnerable Clinicians and Unnecessary Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic., Annie Janvier and John Lantos (Editorial)

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The rapid increase in telemedicine visits during COVID-19, Chelsea Johnson, Kathryn Taff, Brian R. Lee, and Amanda Montalbano (Article)

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A conceptual framework for rescheduling elective pediatric gastroenterology procedures following covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Panamdeep Kaur, Thomas M. Attard, Douglas S. Fishman, Fernando Zapata, Donna Ditsch, Mike Thomson, and Jennifer Verrill Schurman (Letter to the Editor)

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A Conceptual Framework for Rescheduling Elective Pediatric Gastroenterology Procedures Following COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown., Panamdeep Kaur, Thomas M. Attard, Douglas S. Fishman, Fernando Zapata, Donna Ditsch, Mike Thomson, and Jennifer Verrill Schurman (Article)

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Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic., Erwin J. Khoo and John Lantos (Article)

COVID: Where Do We Go From Here, John Lantos and Shari Barkin (Podcast)

COVID: What Have We Learned, John Lantos and Louis Bell (Podcast)

COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Health, John Lantos and Phoebe Danziger (Podcast)

COVID and Child Abuse, John Lantos and Stephanie Deutsch (Podcast)

Planning for COVID in Washington State, John Lantos and Douglas S. Diekema (Podcast)

COVID in New York City, John Lantos and George Hardart (Podcast)

Should Children Get A New COVID Vaccine, John Lantos and Angela Myers (Podcast)

COVID Vaccines and Children, John Lantos and Barbara A. Pahud (Podcast)

Work-Life Balance in the COVID Era: Sending Your Kids to School vs Remote Learning, John Lantos, Vanessa Watkins, and Jeremy R. Garrett (Podcast)

School Nurses and COVID, John Lantos, Vanessa Watkins, Jeremy R. Garrett, and Shelby Rebeck (Podcast)

COVID in the UK: Where Do We Go From Here, John Lantos and Dominic Wikinson (Podcast)

A Pediatric Infectious Disease Doctor Reflects on COVID in Texas, John Lantos and Susan Wootton (Podcast)

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on pharmacy learners and preceptors., Katie Louiselle, Claire Elson, Alexandra Oschman, and Stephanie Duehlmeyer (Article)

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Impact of COVID-19 on Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellow Training in North America., Daniel Mallon, John F. Pohl, Uma P. Phatak, Melissa Fernandes, John Rosen, Sarah S. Lusman, Cade M. Nylund, Candi S. Jump, Aliza B. Solomon, Arvind Srinath, Andrew Singer, Rula Harb, Norberto Rodriguez-Baez, Kristin L. Whitfield Van Buren, Shifra Koyfman, Riha Bhatt, Dellys M Soler-Rodriguez, Mamata Sivagnanam, Christine K Lee, and NASPGHAN Training Committee COVID-19 Survey Working Group (Article)

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Advocating for Children During the COVID-19 School Closures., Abbey R. Masonbrink and Emily A. Hurley (Article)

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Safe and effective medication utilization in pediatric patients requiring rehabilitation services during the Coronavirus pandemic of 2019., Matthew J. McLaughlin (Article)

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A risk-stratified approach toward safely resuming OnabotulinumtoxinA injections based on dosing and ambulatory status in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy during the Coronavirus pandemic of 2019 (COVID-19)., Matthew J. McLaughlin, Mark T. Fisher, Sathya Vadivelu, Justin Ramsey, Denesh Ratnasingam, Emily McGhee, and Kim Hartman (Article)

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Development of Drive-Through and Mail-In Systems for Obtaining Surveillance Respiratory Specimens in a Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Center, Ellen Meier, Paula Capel, and Christopher M. Oermann (Poster)

The Battle Of 2020 Continues-- COVID Versus Flu with Ann Mattison, APRN, Tobie O'Brien, Trisha Williams, and Ann Mattison (Podcast)

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Telemedicine in the Era of COVID-19., Jay M. Portnoy, Morgan Waller, and Tania Elliott (Article)

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Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Congenital Heart Surgery Programs Across the World: Assessment by a Global Multi-Societal Consortium., Eleftherios M. Protopapas, Mauro Lo Rito, Vladimiro L. Vida, George E. Sarris, Christo I. Tchervenkov, Bohdan J. Maruszewski, Zdzislaw Tobota, Bistra Zheleva, Hao Zhang, Jeffery P. Jacobs, Joseph A. Dearani, Elizabeth H. Stephens, James S. Tweddell, Nestor F. Sandoval, Emile A. Bacha, Erle H. Austin, Kisaburo Sakamoto, Sachin Talwar, Hiromi Kurosawa, Zohair Y Al Halees, Marcello B. Jatene, Krishna S. Iyer, Cheul Lee, Rajesh Sharma, Yasutaka Hirata, Frank Edwin, Jorge L. Cervantes, James O'Brien, James D. St Louis, James K. Kirklin, and COVID-19 International Congenital Heart Surgery Taskforce (Article)

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections in Children: Multicenter Surveillance, United States, January-March 2020., Brian Rha, Joana Y. Lively, Janet A. Englund, Mary A. Staat, Geoffrey A. Weinberg, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Natasha B. Halasa, John V. Williams, Julie A. Boom, Leila C. Sahni, Marian G. Michaels, Laura S. Stewart, Christopher J. Harrison, Peter G. Szilagyi, Monica M. McNeal, Eileen J. Klein, Bonnie Strelitz, Kirsten Lacombe, Elizabeth Schlaudecker, Mary Moffatt, Jennifer E. Schuster, Barbara A. Pahud, Gina Weddle, Robert W. Hickey, Vasanthi Avadhanula, Mary E. Wikswo, Aron J. Hall, Aaron T. Curns, Susan I. Gerber, and Gayle Langley (Article)

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Frequency of asymptomatic and symptomatic respiratory virus detection in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant patients, Jennifer E. Schuster, Dithi Banerjee, Ibrahim A. Ahmed, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Article)

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A Phased Approach to Resuming Suspended Allergy/Immunology Clinical Services., Daniel A. Searing, Cullen M. Dutmer, David M. Fleischer, Marcus S. Shaker, John Oppenheimer, Mitchell H. Grayson, David Stukus, Nicholas Hartog, Elena W Y Hsieh, Nicholas L. Rider, Timothy K. Vander Leek, Harold Kim, Edmond S. Chan, Doug Mack, Anne K. Ellis, Elissa M. Abrams, Priya Bansal, David M. Lang, Jay Lieberman, David Bk Golden, Dana Wallace, Jay M. Portnoy, Giselle Mosnaim, and Matthew Greenhawt (Article)

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Reply to "Subcutaneous terbutaline as an alternative to aerosolized albuterol"., Marcus S. Shaker, John Oppenheimer, Mitchell Grayson, David Stukus, Nicholas Hartog, Elena W Y Hsieh, Nicholas Rider, Cullen M M. Dutmer, Timothy K. Vander Leek, Harold Kim, Edmond S. Chan, Doug Mack, Anne K. Ellis, David Lang, Jay Lieberman, David Fleischer, David B K Golden, Dana Wallace, Jay M. Portnoy, Giselle Mosnaim, and Matthew Greenhawt (Response or Comment)

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COVID-19: Pandemic Contingency Planning for the Allergy and Immunology Clinic., Marcus S. Shaker, John Oppenheimer, Mitchell Grayson, David Stukus, Nicholas Hartog, Elena W Y Hsieh, Nicholas Rider, Cullen M. Dutmer, Timothy K. Vander Leek, Harold Kim, Edmond S. Chan, Doug Mack, Anne K. Ellis, David Lang, Jay Lieberman, David Fleischer, David B K Golden, Dana Wallace, Jay M. Portnoy, Giselle Mosnaim, and Matthew Greenhawt (Article)

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Consensus recommendations for the care of children receiving chronic dialysis in association with the COVID-19 epidemic., Qian Shen, Mo Wang, Ruochen Che, Qiu Li, Jianhua Zhou, Fang Wang, Ying Shen, Jie Ding, Songming Huang, Hui-Kim Yap, Bradley A. Warady, Hong Xu, Aihua Zhang, and Chinese Society of Pediatric Nephrology and Chinese Medical Doctor Association of Pediatric Nephrology (Article)

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Inaction Is Not an Option: Using Antiracism Approaches to Address Health Inequities and Racism and Respond to Current Challenges Affecting Youth., Maria Veronica Svetaz, Romina Barral, Michele A. Kelley, Tina Simpson, Vinny Chulani, Marissa Raymond-Flesch, Tamera Coyne-Beasley, Maria Trent, Kenneth Ginsburg, and Nuray Kanbur (Response or Comment)

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Benefits and Risks of Visitor Restrictions for Hospitalized Children During the COVID Pandemic., Alice K. Virani, Henry T. Puls, Rebecca Mitsos, Holly Longstaff, Ran D. Goldman, and John Lantos (Article)

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Children's Hospital ICU Resource Allocation in an Adult Pandemic., Ian D. Wolfe, Jeremy R. Garrett, Brian S. Carter, and John Lantos (Article)