{"id":9079,"date":"2020-08-17T11:50:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:50:35","slug":"covid-19-in-children-analysis-of-the-first-pandemic-peak-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/17\/covid-19-in-children-analysis-of-the-first-pandemic-peak-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in Children: Analysis of the First Pandemic Peak in England"},"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\">Ladhani<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">analyzed\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">public health surveillance\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">data\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">including<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">540,305<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0people\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tested for SAR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-CoV-2 in Eng<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">land\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">through May 3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and found that 1408\/35,200 (4%) tests were positive among children\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">younger than 16<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared to 19%-35%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">positive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among adult age groups.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Children accounted for 1.1% of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 positive cases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These included\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8 deaths among children, three of whom had multiple co-morbidities<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an additional four in whom SARS-CoV-2 was determined to be an indirect contributor to death from another cause.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There was no\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">evidence of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">excess\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mortality<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in children\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during this period<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\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\">Ladhani<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 12, 2020). COVID-19 in Children: Analysis of the First Pandemic Peak in England. Archives of Disease in Childhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/archdischild-2020-320042\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/archdischild-2020-320042<\/span><\/a><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>Ladhani\u00a0et al.\u00a0analyzed\u00a0public health surveillance\u00a0data\u00a0including\u00a0540,305\u00a0people\u00a0tested for SARS-CoV-2 in England\u00a0through May 3, 2020\u00a0and found that 1408\/35,200 (4%) tests were positive among children\u00a0younger than 16,\u00a0compared to 19%-35%\u00a0positive\u00a0among adult age groups.\u00a0Children accounted for 1.1% of\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 positive cases.\u00a0These included\u00a08 deaths among children, three of whom had multiple co-morbidities\u00a0and\u00a0an additional four in whom SARS-CoV-2 was determined to be an indirect contributor&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/17\/covid-19-in-children-analysis-of-the-first-pandemic-peak-in-england\/\">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-9079","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\/9079","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=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9080,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/9080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}