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ReviewJournal of paediatrics and child health2022

COVID-19 in children. II: Pathogenesis, disease spectrum and management.

Annaleise R Howard-Jones, David P Burgner, Nigel W Crawford, Emma Goeman, Paul E Gray, Peter Hsu, Stephanie Kuek, Brendan J McMullan, Shidan Tosif, Danielle Wurzel and 6 more

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Review in Journal of paediatrics and child health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Annaleise R Howard-JonesDiscipline of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9756-2813
David P BurgnerInfectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-4302
Nigel W CrawfordInfection and Immunity Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Emma GoemanDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Paul E GrayDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Peter HsuDiscipline of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Stephanie KuekDepartment of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Brendan J McMullanDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5144-3416
Shidan TosifInfection and Immunity Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0022-1009
Danielle WurzelInfection and Immunity Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Asha C BowenDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Perth Children's Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Margie DanchinInfection and Immunity Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7624-5691
Archana KoiralaDiscipline of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2567-8825
Ketaki SharmaDiscipline of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Daniel K YeohDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Perth Children's Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6284-612X
Philip N BrittonDiscipline of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2993-6000

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the life of every child either directly or indirectly. This review explores the pathophysiology, immune response, clinical presentation and treatment of COVID-19 in children, summarising the most up-to-date data including recent developments regarding variants of concern. The acute infection with SARS-CoV-2 is generally mild in children, whilst the post-infectious manifestations, including paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) and 'long COVID' in children, are more complex. Given that most research on COVID-19 has focused on adult cohorts and that clinical manifestations, treatment availability and impacts differ markedly in children, research that specifically examines COVID-19 in children needs to be prioritised.

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COVID-19ChildHumansPandemicsPost-Acute COVID-19 SyndromeSARS-CoV-2Systemic Inflammatory Response SyndromeCOVID-19managementPIMS-TSSARS-CoV-2virology

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PMID34694037
PMCPMC8662268

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