Novel Coronavirus Infection in Hospitalized Infants Under 1 Year of Age in China.
By Min Wei, Jingping Yuan, Yu Liu, T. Fu, Xue-Jie Yu, Zhi-Jiang Zhang. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
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Previous studies suggest that COVID-19 is more likely to infect older adult men, particularly those with chronic comorbidities 2-4 Few infections in children have been reported We identified all infected infants in China and described demographic, epidemiologic, and clinical features
Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Obstetrics and Gynecology
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