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Hundreds of severe pediatric COVID-19 infections in Wuhan prior to the lockdown

Du, Z.; Nugent, C.; Cowling, B. J.; Meyers, L. A.

2020-03-20 epidemiology
10.1101/2020.03.16.20037176 medRxiv
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Before January 22, 2020, only one pediatric case of COVID-19 was reported in mainland China1,2. However, a retrospective surveillance study3 identified six children who had been hospitalized for COVID-19 in one of three central Wuhan hospitals between January 7th and January 15th. Given that Wuhan has over 395 other hospitals, there may have been far more severe pediatric cases than reported.

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