The coronavirus outbreak has largely spared children, but two new medical reports document the first infant and first teenager to die of COVID-19.
deaths in children make clear that those under 18 are neither immune from infection nor completely spared from becoming very sick.From the pandemic’s early days, children have largely been onlookers to the morbidity and mortality. They are thought to be widely infected but rarely ill, and the role they play in spreading the virus is not yet understood.was revealed Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, focused on all 2,143 pediatric cases of COVID-19 that were reported to China’s Center for Disease Control by Feb. 8. The study found little difference between boys’ and girls’ likelihoods of becoming infected or sick. But it did begin to flesh out the proportion of infected kids who become sick, and whether certain age groups face a greater risk.
The remaining 39% of children were moderately ill. They had symptoms like pneumonia with a cough that progressed from dry to productive, and fever.
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