COVID-19 clinical course in children features during the first year of pandemic

Abstract

Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children worldwide for the several last decades. This fact makes the study of coronaviral infection in children especially relevant and important. Although according to first reviews and meta-analysis of the world literature data, most infected children appear to have a milder course and have better outcomes overall (Neha A. Patel, 2020), further studies revealed a risk of SARS (B.Cristophers et al, 2022), encephalitis (L. Urso et al., 2022) and other complications, especially in children with comorbidities.