The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: jmyrlefuller on May 19, 2021, 10:57:53 pm
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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.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/05/19/covid-kids-hospitalizations-lower-than-previously-thought-study-says/5073193001/