{"id":7369,"date":"2020-06-05T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:27:16","slug":"incidence-of-covid-19-in-pediatric-surgical-patients-among-3-us-childrens-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/05\/incidence-of-covid-19-in-pediatric-surgical-patients-among-3-us-childrens-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Incidence of COVID-19 in Pediatric Surgical Patients Among 3 US Children\u2019s Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Universal pre-operative screening for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, Texas Children\u2019s Hospital, and Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital from March 26-April 22, 2020 found that 0.93% of children were positive, ranging from 0.22% to 2.65% across these hospitals. Fifty percent of positive children had symptoms and 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0had known exposure.\u00a0Increasing\u00a0age and emergency status of procedure were positively associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lin et al. (June 4, 2020). Incidence of COVID-19 in Pediatric Surgical Patients Among 3 US Children\u2019s Hospitals. JAMA Surgery.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamasurg.2020.2588\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamasurg.2020.2588<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal pre-operative screening for\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0infection\u00a0at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, Texas Children\u2019s Hospital, and Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital from March 26-April 22, 2020 found that 0.93% of children were positive, ranging from 0.22% to 2.65% across these hospitals. Fifty percent of positive children had symptoms and 20%\u00a0had known exposure.\u00a0Increasing\u00a0age and emergency status of procedure were positively associated&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/05\/incidence-of-covid-19-in-pediatric-surgical-patients-among-3-us-childrens-hospitals\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","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=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7370,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}