What We Know About COVID-19 and Kids

Lawrence Kleinman, MD, professor, vice chair, department of pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

CDC, “Demographic Trends of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US reported to CDC,” “Children with Certain Underlying Conditions,” “Health Department-Reported Cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) in the United States,” “Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C)”

Bloomberg News, “Covid-19 Infections on the Rise in Kids and Teens With School Approaching.”

Beth Pathak, Ph.D., co-founder, The COVKID Project.

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

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

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

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

Emerging Infectious Diseases, “Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020.”