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Asher Bercow, MD, FAAP, "Acute COVID-19 Disease", Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine, Jeffrey C. Gershel, MD, FAAP, Daniel A. Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM
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Pandemic COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, primarily affects the respiratory, gastrointestinal, endovascular, and neurologic systems. Children of all ages can be affected, generally with milder disease than adults. Risks for hospitalization include unvaccinated status, age younger than 2 years, age 12 to 17 years, obesity, chronic respiratory diseases, asthma, and immunosuppression.
Most often, a patient who will require hospitalization due to acute COVID-19 disease presents with fever and/or chills. Other complaints may include pneumonia (dry, nonproductive cough; shortness of breath; hypoxia; respiratory distress), gastroenteritis (abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea), dehydration, myalgias, headache, seizures, and loss of smell and/or taste....
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