Survey identifies unmet child medical needs in first 2 US COVID pandemic waves
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 In the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, 16% of children aged 5 to 12 years didn’t visit their healthcare provider, 11% went without a well-child visit, and 30% didn’t complete a well-child visit in the past year, parent responses to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey show. CDC researchers and other public health experts analyzed survey data from pandem ic wave 1 (October and November 2020) and wave 2