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  • Research Manager, Healthy Starts Theme, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute; Steering Committee Member, Social Exposome Research Cluster, University of British Columbia
Stressors put on children and adolescents as a result of the pandemic response may have long-lasting effects on their health and well-being. (Shutterstock)

The long‑term biological effects of COVID‑19 stress on kids’ future health and development

Michael S. Kobor, University of British Columbia; Candice Odgers, University of California, Irvine; Kim Schmidt, University of British Columbia, and Ruanne Lai, University of British Columbia

The pandemic response has put the long-term health and well-being of children and adolescents at risk, with the possibility of seismic shifts in population health if we do not act.