{"id":2342,"date":"2020-11-23T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:01:07","slug":"epidemiological-and-clinical-characteristics-of-covid-19-in-children-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/epidemiological-and-clinical-characteristics-of-covid-19-in-children-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meta-analysis (n = 96 studies) of the clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in children (mean age 6.5 years) reported that 90% had household contact with an individual with SARS-CoV-2, 23% were asymptomatic, 27% had at least one comorbidity, and 29% had a co-infection, such as with mycoplasma or influenza. The pooled incubation period was 9.6 days and SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding in the upper respiratory tract lasted 11.4 days. The discharge rate was 79% and the death rate was 1%.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Li et al. (Nov 2, 2020). Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Frontiers in Pediatrics. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fped.2020.591132\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fped.2020.591132<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meta-analysis (n = 96 studies) of the clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in children (mean age 6.5 years) reported that 90% had household contact with an individual with SARS-CoV-2, 23% were asymptomatic, 27% had at least one comorbidity, and 29% had a co-infection, such as with mycoplasma or influenza. The pooled incubation period was 9.6&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/epidemiological-and-clinical-characteristics-of-covid-19-in-children-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}