Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study.
Jillian H HurstSarah M HestonHailey N ChambersHannah M CunninghamMeghan J PriceLilianna SuarezCarter G CrewShree BoseJhoanna N AquinoStuart T CarrS Michelle GriffinStephanie H SmithKirsten JenkinsTrevor S PfeifferJavier RodriguezC Todd DeMarcoNicole A De NaeyerThaddeus C GurleyRaul LouzaoCongwen ZhaoColeen K CunninghamWilliam J SteinbachThomas N DennyDebra J LugoM Anthony MoodySallie R PermarAlexandre T RottaNicholas A TurnerEmmanuel B WalterChristopher W WoodsMatthew S KellyPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
Hispanic ethnicity and an infected sibling close contact are associated with increased SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among children, while asthma is associated with decreased risk. Age-related differences in clinical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection must be considered when evaluating children for coronavirus disease 2019 and in developing screening strategies for schools and childcare settings.