COVID-19 in children: what did we learn from the first wave?

A pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome - coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused high rates of mortality, predominantly in adults. Children are significantly less affected by SARS-CoV-2 with far lower rates of recorded infections in children compared to adults, milder symptoms in the majority of children and very low mortality rates. A suspected late manifestation of the disease, paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome - temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS), has been seen in small numbers of children and has a more severe disease course than acute SARS-CoV-2.

Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - September 17, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Aliki Bogiatzopoulou, Huw Mayberry, Daniel B. Hawcutt, Elizabeth Whittaker, Alasdair Munro, Damian Roland, Justus Simba, Christopher Gale, Susanna Felsenstein, Elissa Abrams, Caroline B. Jones, Ian Lewins, Carlos R. Rodriguez-Martinez, Ricardo M. Fernande Source Type: research