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March 24, 2020
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H. Cody Meissner, MD
According to findings published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine, common signs or symptoms of COVID-19 in children include fever, cough and pharyngeal erythema.
A review by the Chinese CDC found less than 1% of 72,314 cases of COVID-19 assessed in China occurred in children under age 10 years, and another study showed that the clinical manifestations of the disease appear to be less severe in kids. The authors of the new report found the same, writing that, “In contrast with infected adults, most infected children appear to have a milder clinical course.”
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