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Characteristics of COVID‐19 patients up to 6 months of age admitted to a paediatric emergency department
Author(s) -
Bellini Tommaso,
Rotulo Gioacchino Andrea,
Caruggi Samuele,
Carta Sabina,
Bonato Irene,
Piccotti Emanuela
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
acta paediatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/apa.16166
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , emergency department , emergency medicine , pediatrics , betacoronavirus , medical emergency , virology , outbreak , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
Very young age could be a potential risk factor for community‐acquired severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, due to immature immune systems. We retrospectively enrolled 39 infants up to 6 months of age who had presented to our tertiary Italian children's hospital emergency room between 9 March 2020 and 8 March 2021 and tested positive for the virus. Of those, 38 had a non‐specific mild or asymptomatic clinical course and only one patient was admitted to intensive care with severe symptoms. We concluded that very young infants with COVID‐19 had a generally favourable disease course.