{"id":5359,"date":"2020-03-20T14:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2021-03-02T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:22:49","slug":"hundreds-of-severe-pediatric-covid-19-infections-in-wuhan-prior-to-the-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/20\/hundreds-of-severe-pediatric-covid-19-infections-in-wuhan-prior-to-the-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of severe pediatric COVID-19 infections in Wuhan prior to the lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Du et al use influenza and COVID-19 surveillance data from hospitals in Wuhan to estimate cumulative pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations prior to the Jan 23 lockdown. Their estimate of 1,105 cases far surpasses the 425 confirmed cases across all age groups, none of which were children under age 15.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This suggests there may be significantly more mild cases in children then known, and highlights the need for more robust surveillance to capture the severity and extent of COVID-19 cases across all ages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Du et al. (March 16, 2020). Hundreds of severe pediatric COVID-19 infections in Wuhan prior to the lockdown. Pre-print downloaded Mar 20 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.16.20037176\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.16.20037176<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Du et al use influenza and COVID-19 surveillance data from hospitals in Wuhan to estimate cumulative pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations prior to the Jan 23 lockdown. Their estimate of 1,105 cases far surpasses the 425 confirmed cases across all age groups, none of which were children under age 15.\u00a0 This suggests there may be significantly more&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/20\/hundreds-of-severe-pediatric-covid-19-infections-in-wuhan-prior-to-the-lockdown\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5359","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\/5359","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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5360,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}