Clinical characteristics of 182 pediatric COVID-19 patients with different severities and allergic status.
Hui DuXiang DongJin-Jin ZhangYi-Yuan CaoMübeccel AkdişPei-Qi HuangHong-Wei ChenYing LiGuang-Hui LiuMübeccel AkdisXiao-Xia LuYa-Dong GaoPublished in: Allergy (2020)
Pediatric COVID-19 patients tended to have a mild clinical course. Patients with pneumonia had higher proportion of fever and cough and increased inflammatory biomarkers than those without pneumonia. There was no difference between allergic and nonallergic COVID-19 children in disease incidence, clinical features, and laboratory and immunological findings. Allergy was not a risk factor for developing and severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection and hardly influenced the disease course of COVID-19 in children.