COVID infection severity in children under 5 years old before and after Omicron emergence in the US.

Lindsey WangNathan A BergerDavid C KaelberPamela B Davis Nora D Volkow Rong Xu

Published in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2022)

For children under age 5, first time SARS-CoV-2 infections occurring when the Omicron predominated (prevalence >92%) was associated with significantly less severe outcomes than first-time infections in similar children when the Delta variant predominated.

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