RESUMEN

Despite worldwide spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, few publications have reported the potential for severe disease in the pediatric population. We report 177 infected children and young adults, including 44 hospitalized and 9 critically ill patients, with a comparison of patient characteristics between infected hospitalized and nonhospitalized cohorts, as well as critically ill and noncritically ill cohorts. Children <1 year and adolescents and young adults >15 years of age were over-represented among hospitalized patients (P = .07). Adolescents and young adults were over-represented among the critically ill cohort (P = .02).

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Betacoronavirus , Infecciones por Coronavirus/epidemiología , Hospitalización , Neumonía Viral/epidemiología , Adolescente , Distribución por Edad , Asma/epidemiología , COVID-19 , Niño , Preescolar , Estudios de Cohortes , Comorbilidad , Infecciones por Coronavirus/diagnóstico , Tos/virología , Enfermedad Crítica , District of Columbia/epidemiología , Disnea/virología , Femenino , Fiebre/virología , Humanos , Lactante , Recién Nacido , Masculino , Síndrome Mucocutáneo Linfonodular/complicaciones , Pandemias , Faringitis/virología , Neumonía Viral/diagnóstico , Respiración Artificial/estadística & datos numéricos , Estudios Retrospectivos , SARS-CoV-2 , Síndrome de Respuesta Inflamatoria Sistémica/virología , Adulto Joven