There are many ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic may negatively affect the health, wellbeing, and development of children, from the disease triggering a potentially life-threatening multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children to managing the detection and treatment of COVID-19 in children. The 10th installment of the UP “STOP COVID DEATHS: Clinical Management Updates” series, slated this Friday, June 26, at 12:00 nn, will focus on the impact of the viral disease on children.

A recent study by the Interdisciplinary Applied Modeling (IAM) laboratory of the University of the Philippines (UP) Mindanao recommends that “the local government should consider extending the community quarantine” beyond the April 19 end date of the community quarantine in Davao City. The IAM lab is part of the UP COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team – Bioinformatics and Modeling Group, which is mainly composed of mathematicians across the different UP campuses.