What we know about COVID-19 and children


Lawrence Kleinman, MD, professor, vice president, department of pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine.

CDC, “Demographic Trends in COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the US Reported to CDC”, “Children with Certain Underlying Conditions”, “Cases Reported by the Department of Health of Multisystemic Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS -C) in the United States, “” Multi-Systemic Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) “

Bloomberg News, “Increasing Covid-19 Infections in School-Focused Children and Teens”.

Beth Pathak, Ph.D., co-founder of the COVKID Project.

Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, “COVID-19 in Children in the United States: Intensive Care Admissions, Estimated Total Infection, and Projected Numbers of Severe Pediatric Cases in 2020.”

Nature Medicine, “Age-dependent effects on the transmission and control of epidemics of COVID-19”.

Katherine A. Connor, MD, MSPH, Medical Director, The Rales Health Center at KIPP Baltimore, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

ER Chulie Ulloa, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Orange County

Emerging infectious diseases, “Tracking contacts during the coronavirus disease outbreak, South Korea, 2020”.

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