{"id":9850,"date":"2021-05-17T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9850"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:19:18","slug":"a-retrospective-cohort-study-of-12306-pediatric-covid-19-patients-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/17\/a-retrospective-cohort-study-of-12306-pediatric-covid-19-patients-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"A Retrospective Cohort Study of 12,306 Pediatric COVID-19 Patients in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A retrospective cohort study found that a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mong 12,306 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pediatric patients with<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lab-confirmed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> COVID-19 in the US<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5% were<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hospitaliz<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ed, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">% need<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> critical care services and 4% requir<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> mechanical ventilation. 1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">% experienced gastrointestinal symptoms, 8% had dermatological symptoms (rash), <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">% had headache, and 1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">% had other symptoms <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fever, malaise, myalgia, arthralgia and altered smell or taste<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The risk of hospitalization was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">higher <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">among non-Hispanic Black (RR = 2.0) and Hispanic children (RR = 1.3) compared with non-Hispanic white children.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parcha et al.\u00a0(May 2021). A Retrospective Cohort Study of 12,306 Pediatric COVID-19 Patients in the United States. Scientific Reports. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-021-89553-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-021-89553-1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective cohort study found that among 12,306 pediatric patients with lab-confirmed COVID-19 in the US, 5% were hospitalized, 18% needed critical care services and 4% required mechanical ventilation. 14% experienced gastrointestinal symptoms, 8% had dermatological symptoms (rash), 5% had headache, and 19% had other symptoms (fever, malaise, myalgia, arthralgia and altered smell or taste)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/17\/a-retrospective-cohort-study-of-12306-pediatric-covid-19-patients-in-the-united-states\/\">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":[41,34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850","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=9850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9851,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions\/9851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9850"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}