Published in:
17-06-2022 | COVID-19 Vaccination | Editorial
Pediatric patients in the new wave of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Shanghai, China
Authors:
Jian-Guo Zhou, Yan-Ming Lu, Li-Bo Wang, Hui Yu, Ting Zhang, Yi-Wei Chen, Wen-Hao Zhou
Published in:
World Journal of Pediatrics
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Issue 9/2022
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Excerpt
Since March 28, 2022, Shanghai has become the new COVID-19 epicenter in China, with more than 500,000 COVID-19 cases until May 5th, 2022, of which more than 90% are asymptomatic. More than 12,000 children in Shanghai were infected with COVID-19 during the current Omicron wave, which was characterized by family clustering. Because an increasing number of symptomatic children are required to be hospitalized, four major pediatric medical centers in Shanghai and other general hospitals were designated for admitting symptomatic pediatric COVID-19 cases in the early April. There were approximately 3,500 pediatric cases admitted from April 1st until May 5th, 2022. …
