Wuhan children infected from early epidemic? Chinese group reports March 14 5:23
A group in China reports that six children were hospitalized in early January in Wuhan, China, where many patients have been exposed to the new coronavirus, one of whom was being treated in an intensive care unit. did. Although there are few cases of child infection in China, the group says that children may have been infected early in the epidemic.
It has been published in American medical journals by hospitals and universities in Wuhan, China.
The group surveyed 366 children who were admitted to a hospital in Wuhan between January 7 and 15, and found that there were six patients with the new coronavirus.
Six were men and women between the ages of one and seven, and four had viral pneumonia. One of them became severe and was treated in an intensive care unit. After that all six people recovered and were discharged from the hospital.
On the other hand, one of them visited Wuhan within one month, including the family, because it had developed on January 2 two days after China first reported pneumonia to the WHO. Was not.
According to a report released by the WHO last month, the number of infected people under the age of 19 was low at 2.4% of the total, and only a few children became severely affected. Have also been infected.