Figure 2. Hospitalized Pediatric Case Counts by Country.

For France, daily pediatric hospitalization data were obtained from Santé Publique France.²⁰ For Germany, weekly pediatric hospitalization data were obtained from the German Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases.²¹ National pediatric hospitalization data were not available for Singapore. For Spain, weekly pediatric hospitalization data were obtained from the Spanish National Epidemiological Surveillance Network, which lacks hospitalization counts between May 11 and July 15, 2020.²² For the UK, daily pediatric hospitalization data were obtained from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and represent pediatric hospitalizations in England.²³ For the US, weekly pediatric hospitalization data between July 31, 2020, and October 9, 2020, were obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services.²⁴ The y-axis scales for country-level data are independent to compare country-level trends with Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE) trends. The plots in Figure 2A display the counts with a 14-day (centered) rolling mean.