Epidemiology, Clinical Profile, Intensive Care Needs and Outcome in Children with SARS-CoV-2 Infection Admitted to a Tertiary Hospital During the First and Second Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India.
Vishwa C RRaman SharmaMuralidharan JayashreeKarthi NallasamyArun BansalSuresh Kumar AnguranaJoseph L MathewNaveen SankhyanSourabh DuttaSanjay VermaRakesh KumarMahesh DevnanaiPankaj C VaidyaRam SamujhMini P SinghKapil GoyalP V M LakshmiAkshay K SaxenaPublished in: Indian journal of pediatrics (2022)
Disease severity, associated comorbidities, PICU and organ support need and mortality were similar in the first and second waves of the pandemic. Children admitted during the second wave were younger, had higher proportion of NIV use and shorter length of COVID-19 hospital stay.