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babies born during coronavirus lockdowns lagged in developing -- Irish study

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The study, posted this week in the peer-reviewed medical journal BMJ by researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, showed that babies born between March and May of 2020 struggled to communicate at one year of age, compared to babies born between 2008 and 2011.

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One of the study’s authors, Dr. Susan Byrne of the Royal College of Surgeons, told NBC News that a quarter of the babies in the study had yet to meet another baby their age by their first birthday and that few people had come to their homes during the pandemic.

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