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SHEA Pediatric Leadership Council commentary: Supporting well child care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with personal protective equipment in the ambulatory setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2021

Joshua K. Schaffzin*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
Allison H. Bartlett
Affiliation:
Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Latania K. Logan
Affiliation:
Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois
Judith A. Guzman-Cottrill
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
Carolyn Caughell
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Department of Quality, University of California San Francisco Health, San Francisco, California
Karen A. Ravin
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lorry G. Rubin
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, New York Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Northwell Health, Hempstead, New York
Larry K. Kociolek
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineChicago, Illinois
Martha L. Muller
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jason Lake
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Lynn Ramirez-Avila
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
*
Author for correspondence: Joshua K. Schaffzin, E-mail: joshua.schaffzin@cchmc.org

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