Zwicker told CBC Radio s
Ottawa Morning pediatricians are even worried about the pandemic s potential impact on the cognitive development of younger children. Part of learning speech, for example, is to see how other people talk and how their lips move, she said. All the masks that we re wearing might be affecting that.
Dr. Kelley Zwicker is founder of Ottawa Community Pediatricians Network and a mother of four young children.(Rohit Saxena)
Then there are the physical symptoms of social malnutrition. They ve been gaining weight because they re less physically active, said Zwicker. In other cases, pediatricians are seeing the opposite effect. Their weight is going down. We re seeing more cases of eating disorders.