Cortés CME, Maluenda PLH, Alfaro SAA

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Dear Editor:
The interesting article by Mejía et al. provides valuable information on how some media (social networks and television) have generated fear amongst the population during the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19), whose aetiological agent is the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This fear adds up to the dangerous consequences of this disease, which, in most cases, can cause severe respiratory distress leading to multisystemic failure and even death. In this context, adolescents are a group especially susceptible to fear and stress due to their particular neurobiological stage. Therefore, this Letter to the Editor aims at discussing the principal risks for adolescents’ neuropsychological development during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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