Kids are admitted for COVID-19 US

It's breaking news that many Kids are admitted for COVID-19 in US. 

A new study found health care providers may be overcounting the number of kids hospitalized for COVID-19, overestimating the small impact the disease has on children.

 

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine analyzed COVID-19 data from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford from May 10, 2020, to Feb. 10. 

During the nine-month period, 117 patients under the age of 18 either tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at the hospital or were hospitalized for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C.

 


Out of the 117 children, nearly 40% of COVID-19 cases were asymptomatic, according to the study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Hospital Pediatrics. 

 

About 45% of those hospital admissions were categorized as unlikely to be caused by the virus.

 

“It’s in keeping with what other studies have shown, which is that children in general are relatively mildly affected by the infection,” said Dr. Asim Ahmed, a pediatric infectious disease specialist unaffiliated with the study and senior medical director at Karius, an infectious disease diagnostic company.

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Dr. Alan Schroeder, study co-author and clinical professor of pediatric critical care and pediatric hospital medicine at Stanford, said it’s important to distinguish between children who test positive but are asymptomatic and those who are hospitalized for COVID-19 to understand how the disease truly affects the pediatric population.

 

“Our goal is to make sure we have accurate data on how sick children are getting,” he said. 

 

“If we rely on hospitals’ positive SARS-CoV-2 test results, we are inflating by about twofold the actual risk of hospitalization from the disease in kids.”

 


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