{"id":5686,"date":"2020-04-06T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:47:38","slug":"coronavirus-disease-2019-in-children-united-states-february-12-april-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/coronavirus-disease-2019-in-children-united-states-february-12-april-2-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Children\u2014United States, February 12-April 2, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CDC COVID-19 Response Team reviewed lab confirmed pediatric cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. during February 12-April 2 and compared it to data on adults aged 18-64 years. Of the 149,082 (99.6%) cases for which age was known, 1.7% were among children under 18 years old and the median age was 11 years. Among the small proportion of patients with data available, 73% had symptoms of fever, cough or shortness of breath compared with 93% of adults, and 5.7% were hospitalized compared to 10% of adults.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These preliminary findings further add to current knowledge that children do not always have fever or cough, and can play a role in spread of COVID-19, underscoring the importance of following CDC guidance of staying at home, good respiratory hygiene and wearing cloth face coverings when around others.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for COVID-19 in children and monitor for progression of illness, particularly among infants and children with underlying conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CDC COVID-19 Response Team (Apr 6, 2020). Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Children\u2014United States, February 12-April 2, 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6914e4.htm?s_cid=mm6914e4_w\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6914e4.htm?s_cid=mm6914e4_w<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC COVID-19 Response Team reviewed lab confirmed pediatric cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. during February 12-April 2 and compared it to data on adults aged 18-64 years. Of the 149,082 (99.6%) cases for which age was known, 1.7% were among children under 18 years old and the median age was 11 years. Among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/coronavirus-disease-2019-in-children-united-states-february-12-april-2-2020\/\">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-5686","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\/5686","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=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}