Covid and mental health: what are the effects of the pandemic on children

They call them the Covid generation: they are the boys and girls born during the pandemic – over 200 million globally – or those so young that the two years spent in a health emergency represent, if not all of life, a good slice of life. They are those who have experienced, since birth, more or less hard or prolonged lockdowns, of a strange sociality with uncles, grandparents, educators, remote doctors, or in presence but with the face partially covered by a mask.

Everywhere, pediatricians and developmental psychologists are trying to understand how and to what extent the emotional and social environment generated by the health emergency has influenced (would still be influencing, in fact) the neurodevelopment of …