Mundeep K Kainth, Pratichi K Goenka, Kristy A Williamson, Joanna S Fishbein, Anupama Subramony, Stephen Barone, Joshua A Belfer, Lance M Feld, William I Krief, Nancy Palumbo, Sujatha Rajan, Joshua Rocker, Tiffany Scotto, Smiriti Sharma, William C Sokoloff, Charles Schleien, Lorry G Rubin
OBJECTIVES: We aim to describe the demographics, clinical presentation, hospital course, and severity of pediatric inpatients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with an emphasis on healthy, immunocompromised, and chronically ill children. METHODS: We conducted a single-center retrospective cohort study of hospitalized children aged younger than 22 years with COVID-19 infection at Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center at Northwell Health. Cases were identified from patients with fever and/or respiratory symptoms who underwent a nucleic acid amplification-based test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...
October 2020: Pediatrics