#COVID-19 is not influenza - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
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A surprising finding of the study by Piroth and colleagues4
was that, among patients younger than 18 years, the rates of ICU admission were significantly higher for COVID-19 than influenza. The need for intensive care was highest in patients with COVID-19 who were younger than 5 years (14 [2·3%] of 613 for COVID-19 vs 65 [0·9%] of 6973 for influenza), but mortality in the COVID-19 group was not higher than for influenza. #Mortality was ten-times higher in #children aged 11–17 years with COVID-19 than in patients in the same age group with influenza (5 [1·1%] of 458 vs 1 [0·1%] of 804). These findings are supported by a study of 4784 children and adolescents with COVID-19 from Brazil7
and a study of children and adolescents from Spain.8
Clearly, COVID-19 is not an innocent infection in children and adolescents.