Considerations for the outpatient practice in pediatric surgery during the novel SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has traveled the world without respect for geographic borders and impacted the lives of nearly every human soul on the planet. The novel virus responsible for this pandemic usually results in little to no symptoms in the pediatric population [1,2]. This makes children nearly the perfect natural reservoir for the spread of COVID-19. Unfortunately, the older human population does not tolerate infection with COVID-19 nearly as well with morbidity and mortality that increases with age and medical comorbidities [3–6].