The Center for Disease Control released a report that indicates children and adolescents would experience severe COVID-19 symptoms.
In its weekly report on the Trends in COVID-19 Cases in the US, the CDC states that “[c]hildren and adolescents can experience severe acute COVID-19, which might require mechanical ventilation, or result in other complications, such as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children…and persistent symptoms from COVID-19”. This follows a report from the CDC on Hospitalizations Associated with COVID-19, which stated that since March 2020, “approximately one in four hospitalized children and adolescents with COVID-19 has required intensive care…”
The study would that the proportion of children and adolescents to total COVID-19 hospitalizations which resulted in ICU admission during March 2020 – July 2021 in the pre-Delta period and the Delta-predominant period remained around 26.5% and 23.2%. The median length of stay during the two periods was 3 days and 2 days respectively.