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

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

doi:10.3389/fped.2021.700656

Frontiers in Pediatrics (Jul 2021)

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

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

Affiliations

Meghan R. Hutch: Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
Molei Liu: Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
Paul Avillach: Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
Paul Avillach: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
Paul Avillach: Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE)
Yuan Luo: Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
Florence T. Bourgeois: Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
Florence T. Bourgeois: Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.700656
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9

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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.

Published in Frontiers in Pediatrics

ISSN: 2296-2360 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Pediatrics
Website: http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/pediatrics

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