Author: Zhanwei Du; Ciara Nugent; Benjamin J Cowling; Lauren Ancel Meyers
Title: Hundreds of severe pediatric COVID-19 infections in Wuhan prior to the lockdown Document date: 2020_3_20
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Snippet: There were six and 43 children out of 336 who tested positive for COVID-19 and influenza, respectively among all pediatric admissions during the 9-day period 3 Children are strikingly absent from COVID-19 reports and limited data suggest that pediatric infections are overwhelmingly mild 5 . Thus, our estimates for hundreds of severe pediatric cases likely translates to thousands or even tens of thousands of mildly infected children, suggesting th.....
Document: There were six and 43 children out of 336 who tested positive for COVID-19 and influenza, respectively among all pediatric admissions during the 9-day period 3 Children are strikingly absent from COVID-19 reports and limited data suggest that pediatric infections are overwhelmingly mild 5 . Thus, our estimates for hundreds of severe pediatric cases likely translates to thousands or even tens of thousands of mildly infected children, suggesting that the force of infection from children may be grossly underestimated and the infection fatality rate overestimated from confirmed case counts alone. This highlights the urgent need for more robust surveillance to gauge the true extent and severity of COVID-19 in all ages.
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