{"id":5290,"date":"2020-03-17T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:39:00","slug":"covid-19-in-children-initial-characterization-of-the-pediatric-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/17\/covid-19-in-children-initial-characterization-of-the-pediatric-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in Children: Initial Characterization of the Pediatric Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors summarize key findings from a few studies that looked at COVID-19 in pediatric cases \u2013 13% of confirmed cases were asymptomatic; 5% of symptomatic children had dyspnea or hypoxemia, and 0.6% progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome or multi-organ system dysfunction; preschool-aged children and infants were more likely to have severe clinical manifestations than older children.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since many infectious diseases affect children differently than adults, it is important to understand these difference to learn about the pathogenesis, disease management and development of therapeutics for COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cruz &amp; Zeichner. (Mar 16, 2020). COVID-19 in Children: Initial Characterization of the Pediatric Disease. Pediatrics. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2020-0834\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2020-0834<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors summarize key findings from a few studies that looked at COVID-19 in pediatric cases \u2013 13% of confirmed cases were asymptomatic; 5% of symptomatic children had dyspnea or hypoxemia, and 0.6% progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome or multi-organ system dysfunction; preschool-aged children and infants were more likely to have severe clinical manifestations&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/17\/covid-19-in-children-initial-characterization-of-the-pediatric-disease\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}