{"id":3879,"date":"2021-02-11T18:38:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2021-02-22T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T06:30:08","slug":"effect-of-the-new-sars-cov-2-variant-b-1-1-7-on-children-and-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/11\/effect-of-the-new-sars-cov-2-variant-b-1-1-7-on-children-and-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of the New SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.7 on Children and Young People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children may be similar when infection occurs with the B.1.1.7 variant versus the original strain, according to an analysis of two cohorts of children admitted to King&#8217;s College Hospital for COVID-19. The B.1.1.7. variant accounted for ~70% of SARS-CoV-2 infections in London by January 2021 and the two cohorts were identified from March to May 2020 (n=20) and November to January 2021 (n=60). The cohorts did not differ in age, proportion of comorbidities, proportion of patients of minority ethnic background, or deprivation score.<\/p>\n<p><i>Brookman et al. (Feb 10, 2021). Effect of the New SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.7 on Children and Young People. The Lancet Child &amp; Adolescent Health. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2352-4642(21)00030-4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2352-4642(21)00030-4<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children may be similar when infection occurs with the B.1.1.7 variant versus the original strain, according to an analysis of two cohorts of children admitted to King&#8217;s College Hospital for COVID-19. The B.1.1.7. variant accounted for ~70% of SARS-CoV-2 infections in London by January 2021 and the two&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/11\/effect-of-the-new-sars-cov-2-variant-b-1-1-7-on-children-and-young-people\/\">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":[34,159],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-variants","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","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=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}