{"id":7490,"date":"2020-06-11T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:28:18","slug":"what-we-know-so-far-about-coronavirus-disease-2019-in-children-a-meta-analysis-of-551-laboratory-confirmed-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/what-we-know-so-far-about-coronavirus-disease-2019-in-children-a-meta-analysis-of-551-laboratory-confirmed-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Know\u00a0so\u00a0Far about Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Children: A Meta-Analysis of 551 Laboratory-Confirmed Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Zhang et al. conducted meta-analyses\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a046 articles reporting 551 cases of COVID-19 in children. Results showed 18% of cases were asymptomatic. The most common radiographic and computed tomography (CT) findings were patchy consolidations (33%,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">95%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">23%-43%) and ground glass opacities (28%,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">95%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">18%-39%). Six patients, all with major underlying medical conditions, needed invasive mechanical ventilation,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">including\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">one\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">died.<\/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\">Zhang et al. (June 10, 2020). What We Know\u00a0so\u00a0Far about Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Children: A Meta-Analysis of 551 Laboratory-Confirmed Cases. Pediatric Pulmonology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ppul.24869\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ppul.24869<\/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>Zhang et al. conducted meta-analyses\u00a0of\u00a046 articles reporting 551 cases of COVID-19 in children. Results showed 18% of cases were asymptomatic. The most common radiographic and computed tomography (CT) findings were patchy consolidations (33%,\u00a095%CI\u00a023%-43%) and ground glass opacities (28%,\u00a095%CI\u00a018%-39%). Six patients, all with major underlying medical conditions, needed invasive mechanical ventilation,\u00a0including\u00a0one\u00a0who\u00a0died.\u00a0 Zhang et al. (June 10,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/what-we-know-so-far-about-coronavirus-disease-2019-in-children-a-meta-analysis-of-551-laboratory-confirmed-cases\/\">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-7490","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\/7490","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=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7491,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions\/7491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}