Pediatric Emergency Visits Decreased During COVID-19 Pandemic, With COVID-19 Cases Predominating

An observational report analyzed pediatric emergency department visits in the United States from January 2019 through January 2022. The study compared the pre-pandemic period (2019) to the pandemic period (2020, 2021, and January 2022). The sample size was not reported.

The main finding was that overall pediatric emergency department visits decreased during the pandemic years compared to 2019. Concurrently, visits for COVID-19 became the predominant reason for pediatric emergency care. The report did not provide exact numbers, effect sizes, p-values, or confidence intervals for these changes.

No safety or tolerability data were reported. Key limitations include the observational nature of the data, the absence of reported statistical measures or sample size, and the inability to establish causation. The practice relevance is restrained; this report describes an association in a specific U.S. emergency department setting, and the findings should not be overgeneralized.