{"id":9826,"date":"2021-05-17T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9826"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:09:28","slug":"asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infected-children-attending-hospital-with-non-covid-19-diagnoses-march-2020-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/17\/asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infected-children-attending-hospital-with-non-covid-19-diagnoses-march-2020-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2-Infected Children Attending Hospital with Non-COVID-19 Diagnoses, March 2020-February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A surveillance study conducted between March 1, 2020 and February 21, 2021 in the UK found that out of 1,427 pediatric patients admitted to the hospital, 80 (5.6%) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, of which 52 (65%) had symptoms compatible with COVID-19, 16 (20%) were asymptomatic, and 12 (15%) were \u201cunclear\u201d because of overlapping symptoms between COVID-19 and a co-occurring illness. During months when schools were open (June, September-December), there was a 1.65-fold increase in the mean percentage of new asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections among admitted children compared to when schools were closed (March-May, July-August, January-February).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann et al.\u00a0(May 2021). Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2-Infected Children Attending Hospital with Non-COVID-19 Diagnoses, March 2020-February 2021. Journal of Infection. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2021.05.002\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2021.05.002<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surveillance study conducted between March 1, 2020 and February 21, 2021 in the UK found that out of 1,427 pediatric patients admitted to the hospital, 80 (5.6%) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, of which 52 (65%) had symptoms compatible with COVID-19, 16 (20%) were asymptomatic, and 12 (15%) were \u201cunclear\u201d because of overlapping symptoms between&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/17\/asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infected-children-attending-hospital-with-non-covid-19-diagnoses-march-2020-february-2021\/\">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":[107,41,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-asymptomatic-infection","tag-children","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826","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=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9827,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions\/9827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}