Paediatric COVID-19 admissions in a region with open schools during the two first months of the pandemic

Helena Hildenwall; Joachim Luthander; Samuel Rhedin; Olof Hertting; Selma Olsson-Åkefeldt; Erik Melén; Tobias Alfvén; Eric Herlenius; Malin Ryd Rinder

doi:10.1111/apa.15432

Paediatric COVID-19 admissions in a region with open schools during the two first months of the pandemic

Acta Paediatr. 2020 Oct;109(10):2152-2154. doi: 10.1111/apa.15432. Epub 2020 Jul 7.

Authors

Helena Hildenwall^{1

2

3}, Joachim Luthander^{1

4}, Samuel Rhedin^{5

6}, Olof Hertting^{1

4}, Selma Olsson-Åkefeldt^{1

4}, Erik Melén^{5

7}, Tobias Alfvén^{2

5}, Eric Herlenius^{1

4}, Malin Ryd Rinder^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
² Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital at Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract

MeSH terms

Adolescent
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data*
Patient Admission / statistics & numerical data*
Retrospective Studies
Schools
Sweden / epidemiology