Preliminary epidemiological analysis on children and adolescents with novel coronavirus disease 2019 outside Hubei Province, China: an observational study utilizing crowdsourced data

Brandon Michael Henry; Maria Helena S Oliveira

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.01.20029884 doi: medRxiv preprint current COVID-19 outbreak in children. 4, 5 Though this data cannot replace official data and analyses provided by national and international health agencies, it can enable rapid analysis of data and dissemination of key information in the preliminary stages of an outbreak when minimal other data is available, and, as applied in this study, early data on specific subsets of patients. 5 This study combined data from two crowdsourced line lists to obtain a sample of pediatric patients with COVID-19 in order to gain some preliminary insights into the outbreak in children and adolescents. Cases in these patients represented only a small proportion of each line list.