Abstract
Objectives
This study aims to analyze the epidemiological and clinical features of Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) in a Moroccan pediatric population.
Methods
A retrospective study of a cohort of 74 children with RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19. We collected information on clinical and laboratory features of all children (age <18 years) admitted between 2 March, 2020 and 1 April, 2020.
Results
The mean (SD) age of the 74 children (40 girls) was 7 (1.5) years. The mean (SD) time from illness onset to diagnosis was 2 (1) days. 54 children were asymptomatic, while eight had fever, and five cases had cough. Recovery was after a mean (SD) of 12 (1) days.
Conclusions
COVID-19 was mostly mild in the pediatric population in Morocco.
Keywords: Outcome, Pandemic, RT-PCR, SARS-CoV-2
Footnotes
Ethics Clearance
Ethics Committee of Mohammed VI University Hospital Center of Marrakesh, Morocco; No. SD269815/20 dated May 02, 2020.
Contributors
KF: concept and designed the study, analyzed data and drafted the manuscript; HN: helped in data analysis and writing; GD, MB, IS: supervised data analysis. All authors approved the final manuscript.
Funding
None
Competing interest
None stated.
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