Clinical characteristics of 182 pediatric COVID-19 patients with
different severities and allergic status
Abstract
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has made
widespread impact recently. We aim to investigate the clinical
characteristics of COVID-19 children with different severities and
allergic status. 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 non-allergic
COVID-19 children in aspects of incidence, clinical features, 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.