Publication Date
6-1-2022
Journal
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
DOI
10.1097/INF.0000000000003511
PMID
35537132
PMCID
PMC9083307
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
5-6-2022
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
COVID-19, Child, Hospitalization, Humans, Intensive Care Units, Residence Characteristics, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, coronavirus, coronavirus disease 2019, ethnicity, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, race, socioeconomic
Abstract
Social constructs are known risk factors for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. A review of 206 patients demonstrated that children who were non-Hispanic Black, over the age of 12 years or living in a disadvantaged neighborhood associated with severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (intensive care unit admission, intubation and/or vasopressor use).
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