COVID-19 in Children and the Dynamics of Infection in Families

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COVID-19 in Children and the Dynamics of Infection in Families
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07/08/peds.2020-1576

Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, Noemie Wagner, Magali Gauthey, Dehlia Moussaoui, Natasha Loevy, Alessandro Diana and Arnaud G. L'Huillier

Pediatrics July 2020, e20201576; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-1576

• Abbreviations:COVID-19 — coronavirus diseaseHHC — household contactIQR — interquartile rangeSARS-CoV-2 — severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

Since the onset of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, children have been less affected than adults in terms of severity[SUP]1–3[/SUP] and frequency, accounting for <2% of the cases.[SUP]2–5[/SUP] Unlike with other viral respiratory infections, children do not seem to be a major vector of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission, with most pediatric cases described inside familial clusters[SUP]6[/SUP] and no documentation of child-to-child or child-to-adult transmission.[SUP]7,8[/SUP] The aim of this work was to describe the clinical presentation of the first 40 pediatric cases of COVID-19 in our city and the dynamics of their familial clusters.