{"id":5579,"date":"2020-03-31T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:04:33","slug":"covid-19-in-the-pediatric-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/31\/covid-19-in-the-pediatric-population\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in the Pediatric Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors outline selected studies on infants with COVID-19. They highlight that experts do not recommend use of antiviral agents for the treatment of non-severe pediatric cases due to lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They suggest children may be less susceptible to COVID-19 because they have a more innate immune response and healthier respiratory tracts due to lesser exposure to cigarette smoke and air pollutants compared to adults.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abdelmaksoud et al. (Mar 27, 2020). COVID-19 in the Pediatric Population. Dermatol Therapy <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/dth.13339\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/dth.13339<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors outline selected studies on infants with COVID-19. They highlight that experts do not recommend use of antiviral agents for the treatment of non-severe pediatric cases due to lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness. They suggest children may be less susceptible to COVID-19 because they have a more innate immune response and healthier respiratory&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/31\/covid-19-in-the-pediatric-population\/\">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-5579","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\/5579","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=5579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5579"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}