The direct impact of covid-19 on the health of children and adolescents has not been very strong. Nevertheless, children and adolescents have suffered the consequences of health policies aimed at guaranteeing social distancing: from limitations to mobility to the interruption of face-to-face teaching activities. High levels of stress can influence the psychophysical development of children and adolescents, especially in low-income families. With regard to the most affected children and adolescents, rehabilitation must consist in the reconstruction of daily life: we cannot abolish poverty or pandemics, but it is necessary to prevent and understand the needs of vulnerable people. The strictly health dimension of the doctor's work must be linked to social interventions towards the people most at risk, implementing a sort of "gentle revolution" capable of concretely intervening at the level of families, schools and local contexts.