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. 2022 Jul;85(1):90-122.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.04.020. Epub 2022 Apr 10.

Very low rates of severe COVID-19 in children hospitalised with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in London, England"

Borbàla Zsigmond  1 , Aodhán Seán Breathnach  2 , Anna Mensah  3 , Shamez N Ladhani  4
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Very low rates of severe COVID-19 in children hospitalised with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in London, England"

Borbàla Zsigmond et al. J Infect. 2022 Jul.

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Fig. 1a
Children and young people aged 0–18 years who were admitted to St. George's Hospital, London, with PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and total case numbers for the same age-group in London by month of year during December 2020 to January 2022. The blue bars denote children hospitalised for acute COVID-19, the orange bars denote hospitalisations where SARS-CoV-2 likely contributed to the hospitalisation and the grey bars denote incidental infections in children and young people hospitalised with other medical conditions.
Fig. 1b
Fig. 1b
Children and young people aged 0–18 years who were admitted to St. George's Hospital, London, with PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection by age-group during December 2020 to January 2022. The blue bars denote children hospitalised for acute COVID-19, the orange bars denote hospitalisations where SARS-CoV-2 likely contributed to the hospitalisation and the grey bars denote incidental infections in children and young people hospitalised with other medical conditions.
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