Epidemiology of COVID-19 among children in China

Y Dong, X Mo, Y Hu, X Qi, F Jiang, Z Jiang… - Pediatrics, 2020 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: To identify the epidemiological characteristics and transmission patterns of
pediatric patients with the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China. METHODS:
Nationwide case series of 2135 pediatric patients with COVID-19 reported to the Chinese
Center for Disease Control and Prevention from January 16, 2020, to February 8, 2020,
were included. The epidemic curves were constructed by key dates of disease onset and
case diagnosis. Onset-to-diagnosis curves were constructed by fitting a log-normal …