Impact of restrictive measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic on the incidence of immune thrombocytopenia in children: an Italian single center experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge effect all over the world and its impact has been even more profound in the world of Healthcare. In this brief report we'd like to report about our experience in pediatric newly diagnosed thrombocytopenia and how we have seen the landscape of this disease change in the last 2 years. In particular, we believe that the use of personal protective equipment and lockdown measures have reduced the incidence of viral triggers that are supposed to be responsible for the vast majority of ITP cases. Along with these data, we found some other significant differences in the period taken into account.