Alopecia Areata in Children Due to Confinement During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Starting in March 2020, several countries around the world implemented containment and physical/ social distanciation measures to halt the spread of the virus COVID-19. General confinement in the context of the covid pandemic is a potentially high-risk situation for children specifically and their mental and psychological health. The quarantine has affected more than 860 million children and adolescents worldwide [1]. Classically, the stress burden associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to increase many psychiatry-related dermatologic diseases, including psoriasis, chronic urticaria, and alopecia areata [2].

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