More hospitalization, complications for kids with COVID-19 than with fluHospitalization and respiratory complications were more frequent in children and adolescents with COVID-19 during the early months of the pandemic than in those diagnosed as having influenza in past flu seasons, an international team of researchers reported today in Pediatrics.The multinational cohort study reviewed 19 databases in the United States, Germany, France, Spain, and South Korea for data on patients under the age of 18 with a clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 or a positive test result from SARS-CoV-2 from January through June 2020.
The researchers described baseline demographics, comorbidities, symptoms, and outcomes, and included a cohort of children and