National Trends in Disease Activity for COVID-19 Among Children in the US

Meghan R Hutch; Molei Liu; Paul Avillach; Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE); Yuan Luo; Florence T Bourgeois

doi:10.3389/fped.2021.700656

National Trends in Disease Activity for COVID-19 Among Children in the US

Front Pediatr. 2021 Jul 8:9:700656. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.700656. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Meghan R Hutch¹, Molei Liu², Paul Avillach^{3

4

5}; Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE); Yuan Luo¹, Florence T Bourgeois^{3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States.
² Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
⁵ Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

Abstract

Ongoing monitoring of COVID-19 disease burden in children will help inform mitigation strategies and guide pediatric vaccination programs. Leveraging a national, comprehensive dataset, we sought to quantify and compare disease burden and trends in hospitalizations for children and adults in the US.

Keywords: COVID-19; hospitalization; pediatric; public health; surveillance.

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