Pediatric Healthcare Providers To inform pediatric healthcare providers of information available on children with COVID-19.
Refer to this information when managing pediatric patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19. Relatively few cases of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection have been reported in children compared with the total number of cases in the general population.
As of Feb. 20, 2020, 2.4% of the 75,465 cases (confirmed and suspected) in China had occurred among persons younger than 19 years old.
An analysis from one large city in southern China suggests that, among all cases, the proportion of children younger than 15 years old may have increased from 2% to 13% from early to later in the outbreak.