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Insatiably curious. Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Infectious Disease. Paediatric COVID-19. Keeper of two small boys, one large boy and a Basset hound.
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Aug 28, 2020 18 tweets 9 min read
Delighted to present our paper in #BMJ today.

Detailed prospective study of 651 #children admitted with #SARSCoV2 across 138 UK hospitals

Here are some of the key findings:

bmj.com/content/370/bm… 1. Severe disease was rare in children and death was extremely rare.

- Children under 19 made up less than 1% of all patients admited with #SARSCoV2 (651 / 69516 patients of all ages)

- Extremely low in-hospital mortality rate (<1% in children vs 27% in adults)
Jul 17, 2020 13 tweets 5 min read
Our preprint is out!
We report the detailed clinical characteristics of 451 children & young people hospitalised with covid-19 in the United Kingdom from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study @CCPUKstudy

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Here are some of the key points we found: 1. Severe covid-19 was rare in children (17% (72/431) of admissions were to ICU / HDU) and death was extremely rare (0.7% (3/451) children and young people, all of whom had profound comorbidities)