1. Severe Coronavirus Disease-2019 in Children and Young Adults in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Region.
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DeBiasi RL, Song X, Delaney M, Bell M, Smith K, Pershad J, Ansusinha E, Hahn A, Hamdy R, Harik N, Hanisch B, Jantausch B, Koay A, Steinhorn R, Newman K, and Wessel D
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- Adolescent, Age Distribution, Asthma epidemiology, COVID-19, Child, Child, Preschool, Cohort Studies, Comorbidity, Coronavirus Infections diagnosis, Cough virology, Critical Illness, District of Columbia epidemiology, Dyspnea virology, Female, Fever virology, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome complications, Pandemics, Pharyngitis virology, Pneumonia, Viral diagnosis, Respiration, Artificial statistics & numerical data, Retrospective Studies, SARS-CoV-2, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome virology, Young Adult, Betacoronavirus, Coronavirus Infections epidemiology, Hospitalization, Pneumonia, Viral epidemiology
- Abstract
Despite worldwide spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, few publications have reported the potential for severe disease in the pediatric population. We report 177 infected children and young adults, including 44 hospitalized and 9 critically ill patients, with a comparison of patient characteristics between infected hospitalized and nonhospitalized cohorts, as well as critically ill and noncritically ill cohorts. Children <1 year and adolescents and young adults >15 years of age were over-represented among hospitalized patients (P = .07). Adolescents and young adults were over-represented among the critically ill cohort (P = .02)., (Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2020
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