{"id":8929,"date":"2020-08-10T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8929"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:15:57","slug":"hospitalization-rates-and-characteristics-of-children-aged-18-years-hospitalized-with-laboratory-confirmed-covid-19-covid-net-14-states-march-1-july-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/hospitalization-rates-and-characteristics-of-children-aged-18-years-hospitalized-with-laboratory-confirmed-covid-19-covid-net-14-states-march-1-july-25-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Children Aged &lt;18 Years Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 \u2014 COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1\u2013July 25, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An analysis of pediatric hospitalization data from 14 states found that although the cumulative rate of COVID-19-associated hospitalization among children (8 per 100,000 population) is low compared to adults (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">16<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0per<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0100,000), one in three hospitalized children was admitted to an intensive care unit<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which is\u00a0similar to\u00a0the proportion among hospitalized adults<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Infants\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">less than three months accounted for 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of all children hospitalized. Among 526 (91%) children for whom\u00a0race\u00a0and ethnicity information were reported, 4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% were Hispanic,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">30<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% were Black, and 14% were white; 5% were non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander; and 1% were non-Hispanic American Indian\/Alaska Native.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kim et al. (Aug 7, 2020). Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Children Aged &lt;18 Years Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 \u2014 COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1\u2013July 25, 2020. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6932e3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6932e3<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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 pediatric hospitalization data from 14 states found that although the cumulative rate of COVID-19-associated hospitalization among children (8 per 100,000 population) is low compared to adults (165\u00a0per\u00a0100,000), one in three hospitalized children was admitted to an intensive care unit, which is\u00a0similar to\u00a0the proportion among hospitalized adults.\u00a0 Infants\u00a0less than three months accounted for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/hospitalization-rates-and-characteristics-of-children-aged-18-years-hospitalized-with-laboratory-confirmed-covid-19-covid-net-14-states-march-1-july-25-2020\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-8929","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\/8929","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=8929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8930,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8929"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}