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. 2021 Dec;26(50):2101098.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101098.

COVID-19 trends and severity among symptomatic children aged 0-17 years in 10 European Union countries, 3 August 2020 to 3 October 2021

Nick Bundle  1 , Nishi Dave  1 , Anastasia Pharris  1 , Gianfranco Spiteri  1 , Charlotte Deogan  1 , Jonathan E Suk  1 ; Study group members  2
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COVID-19 trends and severity among symptomatic children aged 0-17 years in 10 European Union countries, 3 August 2020 to 3 October 2021

Nick Bundle et al. Euro Surveill. 2021 Dec.

Abstract

We estimated risks of severe outcomes in 820,404 symptomatic paediatric COVID-19 cases reported by 10 European Union countries between August 2020 and October 2021. Case and hospitalisation rates rose as transmission increased but severe outcomes were rare: 9,611 (1.2%) were hospitalised, 640 (0.08%) required intensive care and 84 (0.01%) died. Despite increased individual risk (adjusted odds ratio hospitalisation: 7.3; 95% confidence interval: 3.3-16.2; intensive care: 8.7; 6.2-12.3) in cases with comorbidities, most (83.7%) hospitalised children had no comorbidity.

Keywords: COVID-19; Europe; children; surveillance.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
Weekly age distribution and rates of notified symptomatic COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions reported to TESSy, pooled from 10 EU countries, weeks 32/2020 to 39/2021 (n = 6,604,483)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Occurrence of reported comorbidities among hospitalised paediatric COVID-19 cases by age group, pooled from seven EU countries, weeks 32/2020 to 39/2021 (n = 1,799)
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