Abstract
We describe the profile of COVID-19 in children from India in this multicentre observational study from tertiary care hospitals in West Bengal. Data of children up to 12 years presenting with positive results on SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test were included. The median (IQR) age of the 41 patients included was 1 (0.42-5.0) year. Eleven (26.8%) patients, including 6 neonates, never showed any symptoms. Fever was seen in only 9 patients (21%), and co-morbities were found in 61% of patients. There was one death.
Keywords: Co-morbidities, Course, Management, Outcome
Contributors
SB: primary investigator, data collection, making draft; AG: making draft, literature search, interpretation, statistical help; AD: data collection, draft, Literature search; MN: technical inputs, data collection, study conception, review draft; RM: conception of study, reviewing draft, Study design, and literature search. All authors approved the final manuscript.
Funding
None
Footnotes
Competing interest
None stated.
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