COVID-19 in Malawi: lessons in pandemic preparedness from a tertiary children's hospital

Arch Dis Child. 2021 Mar;106(3):238-240. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319980. Epub 2020 Dec 23.

Jessica Chaziya^{1

2}, Bridget Freyne^{3

4}, Samantha Lissauer^{5

4}, Maryke Nielsen^{5

6}, Josephine Langton^{1

2}, Bernadette O'Hare⁷, Liz Molyneux^{2

8}, Christopher Moxon^{4

9}, Pui-Ying Iroh Tam^{6

10}, Lucy Hoskyns², Henderson Masanjala², Sakina Ilepere^{2

11}, Memory Ngwira^{2

11}, Kondwani Kawaza^{1

2}, Daniel Mumba^{2

11}, Yamikani Chimalizeni^{1

2}, Queen Dube^{1

12}; Department of Paediatrics, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

¹ Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
² Department of Paediatrics, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.
³ Institute of Infection, Veterinary & Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK [email protected].
⁴ Department of Paediatrics, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁵ Institute of Infection, Veterinary & Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
⁶ Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁷ University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK.
⁸ Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁹ University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
¹⁰ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
¹¹ Kamuzu College of Nursing, Blantyre, Malawi.
¹² Paediatric Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.

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Keywords: HIV; health services research; microbiology; mortality.

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