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Hundreds of severe pediatric COVID-19 infections in Wuhan prior to the lockdown

2020; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1101/2020.03.16.20037176

Zhanwei Du, Ciara Nugent, Benjamin J. Cowling, Lauren Ancel Meyers,

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Before January 22, 2020, only one pediatric case of COVID-19 was reported in mainland China 1,2 . However, a retrospective surveillance study 3 identified six children who had been hospitalized for COVID-19 in one of three central Wuhan hospitals between January 7th and January 15th. Given that Wuhan has over 395 other hospitals, there may have been far more severe pediatric cases than reported.