{"id":7596,"date":"2020-06-17T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T22:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:31:13","slug":"epidemiological-features-and-viral-shedding-in-children-with-sars-cov-2-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/17\/epidemiological-features-and-viral-shedding-in-children-with-sars-cov-2-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiological Features and Viral Shedding in Children with SARS-CoV-2 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An analysis of all children<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(n=314)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from families with SARS-CoV-2 infected members in Zhejiang Province, China found incidence in child<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ren<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">close contacts was significantly lower than<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">adult<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">close contacts (13% vs 21%). Among 43 pediatric cases,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mean age was 8.2 years and mean incubation was 9.1 days, 77% had mild pneumonia and the remainder were asymptomatic. While SARS-CoV-2 RNA\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">could be detected<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in stool samples in 91% of cases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for over 70 days in some children, no family contacts of these children were subsequently infected.<\/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\">Hua et al. (June 2020). Epidemiological Features and Viral Shedding in Children with SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Journal of Medical Virology.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26180\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26180<\/span><\/i><\/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>An analysis of all children\u00a0(n=314)\u00a0from families with SARS-CoV-2 infected members in Zhejiang Province, China found incidence in children\u00a0who were\u00a0close contacts was significantly lower than\u00a0in\u00a0adults\u00a0who were\u00a0close contacts (13% vs 21%). Among 43 pediatric cases,\u00a0the\u00a0mean age was 8.2 years and mean incubation was 9.1 days, 77% had mild pneumonia and the remainder were asymptomatic. 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