Open AccessIs the Prevalence of the Pediatric COVID-19 Infection in Oman Underestimated?
Author(s) -
Mahmood Dhahir AlMendalawi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
oman medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2070-5204
pISSN - 1999-768X
DOI - 10.5001/omj.2020.133
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , epidemiology , population , demography , pediatrics , environmental health , family medicine , virology , pathology , outbreak , disease , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In May 2020 issue of the Oman MedicalJournal, Khamis et al, nicely characterized the epidemiological profiles of the first case series of patients with COVID-19 in Oman. Regrettably, the authors did not address the exact prevalence of COVID-19 in different age groups in the studied Omani population.