Detection of Covid-19 in Children in Early January 2020 in Wuhan, China

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 382; no. 14; pp. 1370 - 1371
• Main Authors: Liu, Weiyong, Zhang, Qi, Chen, Junbo, Xiang, Rong, Song, Huijuan, Shu, Sainan, Chen, Ling, Liang, Lu, Zhou, Jiaxin, You, Lei, Wu, Peng, Zhang, Bo, Lu, Yanjun, Xia, Liming, Huang, Lu, Yang, Yang, Liu, Fang, Semple, Malcolm G, Cowling, Benjamin J, Lan, Ke, Sun, Ziyong, Yu, Hongjie, Liu, Yingle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 02.04.2020
• Subjects: Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use; Betacoronavirus - isolation & purification; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; China; Coronavirus Infections - diagnosis; Coronavirus Infections - therapy; Coronaviruses; Correspondence; COVID-19; Epidemics; Families & family life; Female; Hospitalization; Humans; Illnesses; Infant; Influenza; Lung - diagnostic imaging; Lung - pathology; Male; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; Pandemics; Patients; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Viral - diagnosis; Pneumonia, Viral - therapy; Retrospective Studies; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; China

A retrospective analysis of routine surveillance data involving children hospitalized in central Wuhan, China, for acute lower respiratory infection in early January 2020 revealed six cases of Covid-19. The authors report clinical characteristics of the children and laboratory data.