{"id":8773,"date":"2020-08-06T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8773"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:35:05","slug":"an-increasing-public-health-burden-arising-from-children-infected-with-sars-cov2-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/an-increasing-public-health-burden-arising-from-children-infected-with-sars-cov2-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"An Increasing Public Health Burden Arising from Children Infected with SARS-CoV2:\u00a0A Systematic\u00a0Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Zheng et al. conducted a meta-analysis\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">14 eligible studies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">410 patients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">estimate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children. The pooled proportion of asymptomatic infection was 41% (95%CI 24-57<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">), and the pooled proportion of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infections associated with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">family<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0or<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">household infections<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was 84% (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">95% CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">76-90%). No<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0difference<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0gender\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0observed.\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\">Zheng et al. (Aug 5, 2020). An Increasing Public Health Burden Arising from Children Infected with SARS-CoV2:\u00a0A Systematic\u00a0Review and Meta-Analysis. Pediatric Pulmonology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ppul.25008\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ppul.25008<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>Zheng et al. conducted a meta-analysis\u00a0of\u00a014 eligible studies\u00a0(n=410 patients)\u00a0to\u00a0estimate\u00a0the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children. The pooled proportion of asymptomatic infection was 41% (95%CI 24-57%), and the pooled proportion of\u00a0infections associated with\u00a0family\u00a0or\u00a0household infections\u00a0was 84% (95% CI\u00a076-90%). No\u00a0differences\u00a0by\u00a0gender\u00a0were\u00a0observed.\u00a0\u00a0 Zheng et al. (Aug 5, 2020). An Increasing Public Health Burden Arising from Children Infected with SARS-CoV2:\u00a0A Systematic\u00a0Review&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/an-increasing-public-health-burden-arising-from-children-infected-with-sars-cov2-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">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-8773","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\/8773","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=8773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8774,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8773"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}