Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Pediatric COVID-19 Patients in Ethiopia During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Despite lower admissions and severity, high mortality and morbidity was documented in our pediatric cohort. The presence of comorbidity and inadequate care organization likely contributed to high mortality. COVID-19 centers of low-income settings should emphasize optimizing the care of children with COVID-19 and multimorbidity, and vaccination should be considered in those children to prevent high morbidity and mortality.