Characteristics and Disease Severity of US Children and Adolescents Diagnosed With COVID-19

Leigh Ellyn Preston; Jennifer R Chevinsky; Lyudmyla Kompaniyets; Amy M Lavery; Anne Kimball; Tegan K Boehmer; Alyson B Goodman

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.5298

Characteristics and Disease Severity of US Children and Adolescents Diagnosed With COVID-19

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Apr 1;4(4):e215298. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.5298.

Authors

Leigh Ellyn Preston¹, Jennifer R Chevinsky^{1

2}, Lyudmyla Kompaniyets¹, Amy M Lavery¹, Anne Kimball^{1

2}, Tegan K Boehmer^{1

3}, Alyson B Goodman^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ COVID-19 Response Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Epidemic Intelligence Service, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ Commissioned Corps, US Public Health Service, Rockville, Maryland.

Abstract

This cohort study uses data from the Premier Healthcare Database Special COVID-19 Release to assess the association of demographic and clinical characteristics with severe COVID-19 illness among hospitalized US pediatric patients with COVID-19.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / pathology*
Child
Chronic Disease / epidemiology*
Comorbidity
Female
Humans
Male
Patient Discharge / statistics & numerical data*
SARS-CoV-2
Severity of Illness Index*
United States / epidemiology