COVID-19 in children: analysis of the first pandemic peak in England
| Autor: | Hannah G Davies, Zahin Amin-Chowdhury, Shamez N Ladhani, Nick Andrews, Simon de Lusignan, Alicia Demirjian, Joanne Lacy, Felicity Aiano, Maria Zambon, Heather Whittaker, Mary Sinnathamby, Iain Hayden, Mary Ramsay, Susan Hopkins |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Adult
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Adolescent Cross-sectional study Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Declaration Disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine COVID-19 Testing 030225 pediatrics Case fatality rate Pandemic Epidemiology Disease Transmission Infectious Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Child Original Research Aged 80 and over business.industry Transmission (medicine) SARS-CoV-2 Public health Age Factors Respiratory infection COVID-19 Infant virology Cross-Sectional Studies England Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health epidemiology Public Health business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Disease in Childhood |
| ISSN: | 1468-2044 0003-9888 |
| Popis: | Background: Children rarely develop severe or fatal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as compared to adults. We assessed disease trends, testing practices, community surveillance, case-fatality and excess deaths in children as compared to adults during the first pandemic peak in England. Methods: Public Health England conducts national COVID-19 surveillance using multiple national data sources. Daily positive and negative SARS-CoV-2 results are reported by public health, National Health Service and private laboratories across England. Individuals presenting with acute respiratory infection (ARI) in primary care were swabbed for SARS-CoV-2 as part of community-based surveillance. Daily death registrations were used to estimate childhood deaths compared to the previous five years. Findings: Between 16 January and 5 May 2020, 129,704 (24.0%) of 540,305 people tested positive for SARS-COV-2; of these, 35,200/536,278 (6.6%) with reported age were in children aged |
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