Pediatric Hospitalizations After School Reopening During the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha (B.1.1.7) Variant Spread: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Study in Israel.
Nir FriedmanNitai LevyOr KaplanGabi PadehDanna KrupikRon JacobShirly GamsuGiora WeiserNaama Kuchinski CohenZeev SchnappNoy CohenOren FeldmanDanit PoratMoran GalAlexandra GleyzerTali CapuaAdi KleinLivnat SharkanskySmadar ShiloItamar GrottoEran KozerItai ShavitPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
This multicenter, cross-sectional study provides evidence on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-associated emergency department visits and hospitalizations in pediatric wards and intensive care units after school reopening during the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha (B.1.1.7) variant spread in Israel. Study findings suggest that school reopening was not followed by an increase in SARS-CoV-2-related pediatric morbidity.