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SUBMITTER: Dingens AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7273251 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dingens Adam S AS Crawford Katharine H D KHD Adler Amanda A Steele Sarah L SL Lacombe Kirsten K Eguia Rachel R Amanat Fatima F Walls Alexandra C AC Wolf Caitlin R CR Murphy Michael M Pettie Deleah D Carter Lauren L Qin Xuan X King Neil P NP Veesler David D Krammer Florian F Dickerson Jane A JA Chu Helen Y HY Englund Janet A JA Bloom Jesse D JD
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 20200630
Children are strikingly underrepresented in COVID-19 case counts<sup>1-3</sup>. In the United States, children represent 22% of the population but only 1.7% of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases<sup>1</sup>. One possibility is that symptom-based viral testing is less likely to identify infected children, since they often experience milder disease than adults<sup>1,4-7</sup>. To better assess the frequency of pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infection, we serologically screened 1,775 residual samples from Seattle Ch ...[more]