Children have more complications with COVID than with flu, study findsHospitalization, hypoxemia, pneumonia, and other complications were found more in children who contracted COVID-19 than in those who had seasonal flu, according to a study today in Pediatrics.The researchers drew from databases in France, Germany, Spain, South Korea, and the United States to analyze data on 242,158 youth (18 years and younger) diagnosed as having COVID-19 from January to June 2020, 4.0% of whom were hospitalized.
They then compared 30-day outcomes, including hospitalization, death, pneumonia, and multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), with 2,084,180 children who had the flu during the 2017-18 season.Among the COVID-19 patients, asthma was