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High Consequence Infectious Diseases do sound terribly administrative, don’t they? Not as headline grabbing as PANDEMIC or OUTBREAK but calmly checkboxy and quizzical.<\/p>\n

We blogged previously on the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 \/ COVID19<\/a> and promised some thoughts on how we, child health specialists, should respond to this situation.<\/p>\n

One thing which keeps being unnerving and troublesome is the idea of approaching children wearing full-on-nuclear-holocaust-PPE kit. The view from the bed was captured elegantly in this Tweet<\/p>\n

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What do children see when they\u2019re being managed with suspected COVID-19? We ran a sim @SotonChildHosp<\/a> this week to test the combined processes of our Paeds ED, Paediatrics, isolation ward and PICU. This is what an unwell child sees… @CChaseUk<\/a> @VanessaStanley7<\/a> @FOPICU<\/a> @UHSFT<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/gXsJqg0ljx<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 James Edelman (@jamesedelman) March 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So what can we do to make this more bearable?<\/p>\n

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We’d welcome links\/comments\/approaches. There’s a lovely set of cartoons explaining the process here<\/a>, using a ‘paper dolly’ approach to make the healthcare worker still real under all the masks and gowns. And there are a bunch of broad resources for all sorts of aged children at the ‘BUGS’ site.<\/a><\/p>\n

But what we’d all still love to see, I’m sure, is a Get Well Soon video with catchy tune and the inimitable Dr Ranj singing along in a hood.<\/p>\n