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Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Children and Adolescents Aged less than 18 Years Hospitalized with COVID-19, 6 Hospitals, United States, July-August 2021

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm705152a3.htm?s_cid=mmmm705152a3_w 

Valentine Wanga, Megan E. Gerdes, Dallas S. Shi, Rewa Choudhary, Theresa M. Dulski, Sophia Hsu, Osatohamwen I. Idubor, Bryant J. Webber, Arthur M. Wendel, Nickolas T. Agathis, Kristi Anderson, Tricia Boyles, Sophia K. Chiu, Eleanor S. Click, Juliana Da Silva, Hannah Dupont, Mary Evans, Jeremy A.W. Gold, Julia Haston, Pamela Logan, Susan A. Maloney, Marisol Martinez, Pavithra Natarajan, Kevin B. Spicer, Mark Swancutt, Valerie A. Stevens, Jessica Brown, Gyan Chandra, Megan Light, Frederick E. Barr, Jessica Snowden, Larry K. Kociolek, Matthew McHugh, David Wessel, Joelle N. Simpson, Kathleen C. Gorman, Kristen A. Breslin, Roberta L. DeBiasi, Aaron Thompson, Mark W. Kline, Julie A. Boom, Ila R. Singh, Michael Dowlin, Mark Wietecha, Beth Schweitzer, Sapna Bamrah Morris, Emily H. Koumans, Jean Y. Ko, Anne A. Kimball, and David A. Siegel
December 31, 2021
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly REport
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

“Among the 713 patients hospitalized for COVID-19, 24.7% were aged <1 year, 17.1% were aged 1–4 years, 20.1% were aged 5–11 years, and 38.1% were aged 12–17 years. Approximately two thirds of patients (67.5%) had one or more underlying medical conditions, with obesity being the most common (32.4%)…

Among patients aged 12–17 years, 61.4 percent had obesity (60.5 percent of whom had severe obesity) …

Compared with patients without obesity, those with obesity required higher levels and longer duration of care. These findings are consistent with previous reports and highlight the importance of obesity and other medical conditions as risk factors for severe COVID-19 in children and adolescents.”

This report has been corrected. An erratum has been published.

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