Low impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection among paediatric acute respiratory disease hospitalizations

We read with interest the article by G Pagani et al1, in which the authors report that 0 to 19-year-old children exhibit the lowest SARS-CoV-2 IgG seroprevalence among all the age-groups. In our centre, which is a 250-bed reference paediatric hospital located in Barcelona, 960 patients with fever and/or respiratory symptoms were tested for SARS-CoV-2 in the emergency department during the regional pandemic peak (week 11-20/2020) and only 56 of them were positive (6%). Thirty-one of them were admitted to hospital (Table S1, Supplementary data) and only 7 with an acute-lower respiratory disease (ALRD).

Source: Journal of Infection - October 21, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Maria Mel é, Desiree Henares, Rosa Pino, Silvia Asenjo, Rocío Matamoros, Victoria Fumadó, Claudia Fortuny, Juan-José García-García, Iolanda Jordan, Pedro Brotons, Carmen Muñoz-Almagro, Mariona F-de-Sevilla, Cristian Launes, Kids-Corona Paediatric H Source Type: research