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NewsColony Majority of kids skipping doctor’s appointments amid COVID-19 pandemic, study finds CHICAGO (WLS) — Fewer children are seeing doctors at the office due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Coronavius fears had new parents Gared and Amie Fritz feeling like a trip to the doctor may not be the safest thing for their newborn son Charlie. “You’re so scared right off the bat of having a newborn child, you don’t know what’s right or what’s wrong,” Gared Fritz said. “You don’t want to go anywhere because you don’t want baby to get sick and I don’t want to get sick because my husband and I both have to care for him so we don’t we don’t want to be sick either. So it was kind of scary,” Amie Fritz added. The Chicago couple ended up skipping the baby’s first appointment, but despite their apprehensions, they took their 6-week-old to the pediatrician for his next scheduled checkup. But they are in the minority, as at least one health organi...

NewsColony Flattening the curve won’t lead to coronavirus turning point, study finds © AP China’s containment efforts were effective but came at too high an economic cost, a study has found. Photo: AP Attempts by authorities around the world to “flatten the curve” could be the worst way to fight the pandemic coronavirus, according to new projections by an international team of researchers. The approach, which has been adopted by many countries in the hope that warmer weather and a future vaccine will help rein in the virus, could destroy economies while having little effect on cutting infections, the researchers led by Peking University Professor Liu Yu said. “The turning point will never come, the peak value of case numbers will remain the same as if there are no such measures,” the team, which included scientists from Harvard University in the United States, said in a non-peer-reviewed paper released on preprint platform arXiv.org last week. “We strongly suggest they reconsid...