Children & #Covid19: Timely study published online by Pediatrics, the AAP’s journal. It reports a single death of a child in 2,143 pediatric cases of Covid-19. The child was a 14 yo boy. It has been previously known that a teen had died; no word if he had other illnesses.
The paper, from China, has a lot of good data on kids & #Covid19. More than 90% of children, for instance, have asymptomatic, mild or moderate infection. Only 5.9% of children had severe or critical illness, compared to about 20% in adults. This illness is a bit easier on kids.
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Dong Y, Mo X, Hu Y, et al. Epidemiological characteristics of 2143 pediatric patients with 2019 coronavirus disease in China. Pediatrics. 2020; doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-0702.
