Participants
Of the 69 children on the waiting list for tonsillectomy 44 responded and did not attend school or nursery during lockdown. The mean child age at listing was 7.6 years (range 1.9 - 14.9 years). The cohort contained 20 females and 24 males. The mean number of days on the waiting list was 144.2 days (range 62 - 279 days) and tonsillitis episodes 12 months prior to lockdown was 8.25 (range 3 - 18 episodes). All patients met the SIGN criteria for tonsillectomy (Figure 1)(9). Four patients had also been diagnosed with concurrent obstructive sleep apnoea, no patients were immunosuppressed, had diabetes or cardiac disease.