How a portable negative pressure incubator for COVID‐19 was created with minor modifications

Kumar, Abhyuday; Kumar, Neeraj; Kumar, Amarjeet; Chowdhry, Bhabesh Kant; Sinha, Amit Kumar

The COVID‐19 pandemic is affecting all age and patient groups, including pregnant women and neonates. There is no evidence at the moment to show vertical transmission and intrauterine virus infections in fetuses when women develop COVID‐19 pneumonia in late pregnancy. However infections in neonates are higher than in older children, according to the largest population‐based study to date, and this means that infants may also face a higher risk of severe respiratory failure (1). Dong et al’s national study of 2143 paediatric cases in China from 16 January to 8 February 2020 showed that 10.6% of the severe and critical cases were under one year of age. The incidence rates for the other paediatric age groups studied were: 1‐5 years (7.3%), 6‐10 years (4.2%), 11‐15 years (4.1%) and 16 years plus (3.0%).