Apr 23 SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children
Xiaoxia Lu, Liqiong Zhang, Hui Du, Jingjing Zhang, Yuan Y. Li, Jingyu Qu, Wenxin Zhang, Youjie Wang, Shuangshuang Bao, Ying Li, Chuansha Wu, Hongxiu Liu, Di Liu, Jianbo Shao, Xuehua Peng, Yonghong Yang, Zhisheng Liu, Yun Xiang, Furong Zhang, Rona M. Silva, Kent E. Pinkerton, Kunling Shen, Han Xiao, Shunqing Xu, Gary WK Wong
ABSTRACT
A recent review of 72.314 cases reported by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention showed that less than 1% of the cases were children under 10 years of age.
To determine the spectrum of disease in children, we evaluated children infected with SARS-CoV-2 and treated at Wuhan Children's Hospital, the only center assigned by the central government to treat infected children under 16 years of age in Wuhan. Both symptomatic and asymptomatic children with known contact with people with confirmed or suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection were tested. Detection was made with nasopharyngeal or throat swabs for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA using established methods. Clinical results were monitored until March 8, 2020.