Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Iafusco, Michele
• Ciampa, Clotilde
• De Maddi, Francesco
• Palamone, Gianluigi
• Quarantiello, Flavio
• De Luca, Giuseppe
• Iannello, Carlo
• Pisano, Simone
• Nocerino, Agostino
• Russo, Rocco
• Orlando, Francesca
• Iafusco, Dario

Titel

PediaVirus chatline: all together against COVID-19

Ist Teil von

• Archives of disease in childhood, 2021-03, Vol.106 (3), p.e12-e12

Ort / Verlag

England: BMJ Publishing Group LTD

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The chat, created on WhatsApp and called ‘Pediavirus’, has proven to be very helpful to share knowledge on experiences, already-codified and off label therapies, innovative medical proposals by participating doctors, psychological help to those involved first hand (and to their patients), international guidelines, epidemiological tables and daily stats on number of infected/requiring intensive care/deceased; yet, despite the dramatic moment, irony has never gone missing. At the beginning, the messages (1000/day on average) were almost exclusively ironical/sarcastic; however, over time, content shifted towards statistics, epidemiological grids and symptomatology and humorous messages supplanted by those related to codified therapies 1 (already in use even if off label), innovative therapies or entirely new therapeutic ideas derived from the single clinical practice.2 Discussions have also focused on the psychological/neuropsychiatric aspect of doctors, nurses and affected subjects (either in quarantine or home bound as for Italy’s current regulations), as well as the neurological symptoms. [...]the attention has shifted to COVID-19’s socioeconomic implications, which appear to be increasingly relevant and burdensome (figure 1).