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authors: Dubey, Souvik; Jana Dubey, Mahua; Ghosh, Ritwik; Chatterjee, Subhankar
title: Children of frontline COVID-19 warriors: Our observations
date: 2020-05-21
journal: J Pediatr
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.05.026
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doc_id: 764705
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To the Editor:

We read with interest the article by Jiao et al discussing the behavioral and emotional impact on children and adolescents imposed by the 2019 novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19) pandemic. 1 Here we intend to share our personal observations regarding the difficulties and challenges faced by the children whose parents are frontline "warriors" against COVID-19. Older children and adolescents with more mature thinking may offer respect towards their parents for being involved in the fight against the deadly COVID-19. Incidences of eviction from homes or discrimination against their medical professional parents 4 will create a sense of insecurity, fear, and vulnerability among children-this may lead to long term consequences of anger, aggressiveness and disrespect towards society at large.

Experts have recommended strategies [5] [6] [7] to combat the psychological toll of COVID-19 among children in general. In addition, we hope that government and society will be compassionate about the children of frontline workers at this critical period of time. Most importantly we ourselves needto take care of our own children at this time.

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Acknowledgment: We acknowledge the enormous sacrifice of our children and family that gives us the strength to continue our tireless effort to combat this pandemic.