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Why are children 'missing' from coronavirus outbreak cases?
https://www.livescience.com/why-kids-missing-coronavirus-cases.html

The outbreak of a new coronavirus in China has killed more than 900 people, but one group has escaped with minimal damage: children.

(SNIP) ... It's not entirely clear why children seem to be escaping the worst effects of the virus, dubbed 2019-nCoV. But a similar pattern holds for many infectious diseases, from the familiar, such as chickenpox and measles, to the newly emerged, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), doctors say. ---CONTINUED---

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The coronavirus mystery: Doctors are baffled by children's resistance to the virus while cases climb ....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8065553/CORONA-RESELL.html?fbclid=IwAR3r1nBE66o9la-8aALmAsbImL_3aHouR-B5szq9ldBdlp_gRScYt-9T4NQ

Amid growing fears of a full-blown epidemic, health authorities are trying to wrap their heads around why children have not been struck down by severe symptoms.

Australia's chief medical officer Dr Brendan Murphy said it was very 'unusual' when compared to influenza.

'We don't know whether children might be getting the disease but [their symptoms] are so mild they are not being picked up, or they're not becoming sick, or whether they are somehow less susceptible,' he said. ---CONTINUED---

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Study reveals sharp increase in COVID-19 in kids in Shenzhen
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/study-reveals-sharp-increase-covid-19-kids-shenzhen

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Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News
| Mar 04, 2020

COVID-19 has become endemic to the Chinese city of Shenzhen, and a sharp increase in pediatric infections may indicate that community and intra-family transmissions have become the new mode of spreading the virus, according to a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Also, in a research letter published yesterday in the Journal of Infection, researchers described and compared the wide range and changing characteristics of COVID-19 infection on computed tomographic (CT) imaging with clinical manifestations to improve diagnosis.
Shifting characteristics in Shenzhen ---CONTINUED---

COVID-19 less severe in children than adults: study
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2020/03/16/coronavirus031620

Cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among children in China have been less severe than those in adults, according to a new study.

However, being in a young age group wasn’t entirely protective. Infants had higher rates of severe illness than older children. Experts also say more testing and research will be needed to understand children’s role in spreading the virus in their communities.

COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, was first identified in December 2019 in China and since has spread around the world. More than 174,000 people have been infected, including more than 3,800 in the U.S. The World Health Organization recently declared it a global pandemic, and the U.S. has declared a national emergency. ---CONTINUED---

Toddler with COVID-19 reported in Oklahoma as confirmed cases jump by a dozen
https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/toddler-with-covid--reported-in-oklahoma-as-confirmed-cases/article_8bdb03a7-b629-5e55-99ec-d99315508bc4.html

State health officials reported Wednesday the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in a toddler in Oklahoma.

The case was reported Wednesday morning with 11 other new cases in the state. The total is now 31 with 29 in-state and two out-of-state cases. The toddler, a patient who is younger than 4 years old, is the youngest case reported in the state.

Tulsa Health Department officials reported that one of the new cases was in Tulsa County, bringing the total COVID-19 cases here to four. ---CONTINUED---

Coronavirus cases in children largely less severe than adults, CDC reports
https://www.foxnews.com/science/coronavirus-cases-children-largely-less-severe-than-adults-cdc

The novel coronavirus impacts every demographic, but a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that children in the U.S. have largely had mild cases, compared to adults.

The CDC report, released Monday, notes that less than 2 percent of reported cases in the country are children. ---CONTINUED---