At last, a silver lining

ABSTRACT

Medical Director, International Patient Services Program, Co-Director, Pediatric Travel Medicine Clinic, Director, International Adoptee Clinic, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois contributing editors Bernard A. Cohen, MD Section Editor for Dermcase, Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Jon Matthew Farber, MD Section Editor for Journal Club, pediatrician, ALL Pediatrics, Woodbridge, Virginia Carlton K.K. Lee, PharmD.MPH, FASHP.FPPAG Section Editor for The Clinical Pharmacologist's Notebook, Pediatric Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Department of Pharmacy, and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland MinaL.Alfieri.MD, MS nstructor of Pediatrics, Feinberg Schoo of Medicine, Northwestern University Attending Physician, Academic General Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois AminJ. MSCE Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences;Pediatric Infectious Diseases Attending, Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Associate Fellowship Program Director, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC Michael S. Jellinek, MD Professor of Psychiatry and of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Candice Jones, MD Board-certified general pediatrician in group practice in Orlando, Florida, former National Health Service Corps Scholar, AAP member, spokesperson and author Andrew J. Schuman, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire Steven M. Selbst, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Attending Physician, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware As 2021 gets underway and an increasing number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are administered, I believe that 2021 will be much more of a "normal" year, especially with the hope of COVID-19 vaccine availability for children by fall 2021. Issues discussed include illnesses more prevalent in children of color, such as asthma, sickle cell disease, and COVID-19;the difference in pain managementfor White children versus children of color;and how bias impacts mental health issues in children of color.