Table 5.
Meta-analysis of pediatric mortality among COVID positive patients across different studies
| Study | Event/sample size | Proportion (%) (95% CI) |
Fixed weight (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bjornstad EC et al., 2020 | 6/106 | 5.66 (2.11–11.91) | 10.71 |
| Capone CA et al., 2020 | 0/33 | 0 (0–10.58) | 3.40 |
| Dionne et al., 2020 | 0/25 | 0 (0–13.72) | 2.60 |
| Dufort EM et al., 2020 | 2/99 | 2.02 (0.25–7.11) | 10.01 |
| Godfred-Cato S et al., 2020 | 10/570 | 1.75 (0.84–3.2) | 57.16 |
| González-Dambrauskas S et al., 2020 | 1/17 | 5.88 (0.15–28.69) | 1.80 |
| Lee PY et al., 2020 | 0/28 | 0 (0–12.34) | 2.90 |
| Mamishi S et al., 2020 | 5/45 | 11.11 (3.71–24.05) | 4.60 |
| Toubiana J et al., 2020 | 0/21 | 0 (0–16.11) | 2.20 |
| Whittaker E et al., 2020 | 1/45 | 2.22 (0.06–11.77) | 4.60 |
| Total (fixed effects) | 25/989 | 2.55 (1.67–3.73) | 100 |