Screen Time, Pandemic and Child Neurology
Keywords:
Screen Time, Pandemic, COVID-19, Child, NeurologyAbstract
After the COVID-19 pandemic spread and became uncontrollable then the governments worldwide enforced school closure as part of their containment strategy, which gave rise to digital technology and virtual learning for ensuring some degree of classes continuity. This article tries to explain the condition of increased screen time due to online digitalized education system amidst pandemic and it also briefs the neurological impact on child due to screen timing and pandemic
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