Emergency room visits for kids are down during the pandemic. But that's not entirely good news
Emergency room visits for kids are down during the pandemic. But thatâs not entirely good news Behind the low numbers of broken bones and bouts of the flu is a darker reality: the profound isolation and inactivity that children have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic By Brian Amaral Globe Staff,Updated April 9, 2021, 5:48 p.m. Email to a Friend Dr. Susan Duffy, MD, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital, poses for a photo in the hospital's healing garden in Providence, R.I., on April 9, 2021. The hospital has seen a decrease in ER visits during the C...