The broader effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children are discussed in this ADC Spotlight podcast.

ADC’s Senior Editor Rachel Agbeko is joined by paediatrician, epidemiologist and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Dr Nick Brown; Dr Liz Whittaker, clinical lecturer and consultant paediatric infectious diseases and immunology, Imperial College London; and Professor Russell Viner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Read some of the papers related to this podcast:

- Promoting and supporting children’s health and healthcare during COVID-https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/7/620

- COVID-19: lessons to date from China

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/12/archdischild-2020-319261

- Lockdown: more domestic accidents than COVID-19 in children

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/01/archdischild-2020-319547

- COVID-19: lessons learned from a paediatric high consequence infectious diseases unit

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/09/archdischild-2020-319114

- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric services at a referral centre in Pakistan: lessons from a low-income and middle-income country setting

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/28/archdischild-2020-319424

- Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: governments must balance the uncertainty and risks of reopening schools against the clear harms associated with prolonged closure

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/02/archdischild-2020-319963

- Young people’s views on their role in the COVID-19 pandemic and society’s recovery from it

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/30/archdischild-2020-320040

And explore the dozens of papers published by ADC related to these topics on this special page: https://adc.bmj.com/pages/collections/covid19/