Investigation of the Indirect (Secondary) Effects of COVID-19 on Children, Traditional Compilation

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), one of the viral infections, is triggered by subtypes known as the beta-CoV group. On December 2019, the World Health Organization China country office reported cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, Hubei province of China. The reported agent was identified as a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) not previously identified in humans on January 7, 2020. In the following process, the name of 2019 -nCoV disease was accepted as COVID-19, and the virus was named as severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 due to i ts close similarity to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoV. The disease has caused high rates of morbidity and mortality worldwide since December 2019. Due to the fact that there is research on COVID-19 on child health, the direct (primary) and indirect (secondary) effects reasons on child health are not known exactly. However, with the product obtained in the future, it is expected that the researches to be made with more concrete data will be expanded and definite results will emerge. Pediatric cases diagnosed with COVID-19 are less frequent than those found in the data specified in studies where they received the clinical cloud around seven. It was emphasized that although the clinical picture in children is mild, it has a carrier feature (secondary) and may cause major effects against its direct (primary) effects. Studies have reported that there may be approximately 30 million risks worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic process and its indirect (secondary) effects. In this review, up-to-date literature knowledge has been shown to cause indirect (secondary) effects of COVID-19 on child health, causing distress in health services, interruption of education, daily routine disorder, socio-economic level, etc. many factors have been addressed.