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Among nearly 300 cases where data on the child's other medical history was available,"28 of 37 hospitalized patients, including all six patients admitted to an ICU, had one or more underlying medical conditions," the CDC team reported.
Dr. Lorry Rubin directs pediatric infectious disease at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y. Reading over the CDC report, he agreed that"the likelihood of a child getting seriously ill with COVID-19 is much lower than in adults."When serious illness does occur, it's usually linked to another chronic health condition, Rubin explained.
"I want to emphasize that there is an enormous amount of kids probably getting this disease that are asymptomatic with very mild symptoms," said Dr. Eric Cioe Pena, director of global health at Northwell Health, in New Hyde Park, N.Y."Certainly there isn't a very high risk of mortality in this age group, and I want to reassure people of that," he said.
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