Clinical Features of Children with COVID-19 in Initial Time of Pandemic
Open Access
- 1 January 2022
- journal article
- Published by The Jutendo Medical Journal in Juntendo Medical Journal
- Vol. 68 (6), 622-626
- https://doi.org/10.14789/jmj.jmj22-0005-oa
Abstract
Objectives COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) is now a global pandemic. Although children are said to have mild symptom, their clinical features are not known well. We conducted a retrospective study during initial term of pandemic to understand the difference of clinical features including clinical symptoms and patients’ characteristics of COVID-19 children and those without COVID-19. Materials To compare clinical features between children with and without COVID-19, we collected data on children who received a COVID-19 test between March 25th and October 31st, 2020. All data were collected from medical records. Methods There were three groups of patients in the study sample; patients with COVID-19, patients with close COVID-19 contact and performed COVID-19 tests, and patients suspected COVID-19 but tested negative. We analyzed the clinical features of the groups. Results A total of 108 patients were included in this study, of whom 30 were patients with COVID-19, 25 were patients with close COVID-19 contact, 51 were suspected COVID-19 but tested negative, and two were excluded because they were infants born from COVID-19 mothers. The statistical analysis showed that children with COVID-19 had contact with COVID-19 patients had fewer clinical symptoms including cough and fever compared to children with a negative test of COVID-19. Sensitivity analysis showed that fever, cough, fever and/or cough could not distinguish children with COVID-19 from those without COVID-19. As conclusion, children with COVID-19 have less symptoms as fever or cough and the clinical symptoms cannot distinguish them from children with other diseases.Keywords
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