Decreased number of acute appendicitis cases in pediatric population during the COVID-19 pandemic: Any link?

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). COVID-19 outbreak started in December 2019 as an epidemic in Wuhan, China, and has now spread around the world affecting a huge number of patients and causing a substantial burden to our health care systems [1]. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognized early (January 2020) the problem as an “international concern” and on March 11, 2020, as a pandemic.