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. 2021 Jul 8:9:700656.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.700656. eCollection 2021.

National Trends in Disease Activity for COVID-19 Among Children in the US

Meghan R Hutch  1 , Molei Liu  2 , Paul Avillach  3   4   5 ; Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE); Yuan Luo  1 , Florence T Bourgeois  3   5
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National Trends in Disease Activity for COVID-19 Among Children in the US

Meghan R Hutch et al. Front Pediatr. .

Abstract

Ongoing monitoring of COVID-19 disease burden in children will help inform mitigation strategies and guide pediatric vaccination programs. Leveraging a national, comprehensive dataset, we sought to quantify and compare disease burden and trends in hospitalizations for children and adults in the US.

Keywords: COVID-19; hospitalization; pediatric; public health; surveillance.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
National COVID-19 Hospitalizations among Children and Adults. Hospitalizations were standardized per 100,000 children or adults using US Census population estimates. The scale for pediatric hospitalizations is 10-fold less than for adults. Asterisks indicate significant (P < 0.005) change points.
Figure 2
Figure 2
COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends by Region. Hospitalizations were standardized per 100,000 children or adults using US Census population estimates. The scale for pediatric hospitalizations is 10-fold less than for adults. Asterisks indicate significant (P < 0.005) change points.
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