COVID-19

=== Children ===
{{See also|Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children}}

While very young children have experienced lower rates of infection, older children have a rate of infection that is similar to the population as a whole.<ref>{{#invoke:Cite web||title=COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in transmission – first update |url=https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/children-and-school-settings-covid-19-transmission |website=European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control |access-date=6 April 2021 |date=23 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:Cite web||title=Estimated Disease Burden of COVID-19 |url=https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html |website=U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) |access-date=6 April 2021 |date=11 February 2020}}</ref> Children are likely to have milder symptoms and are at lower risk of severe disease than adults.<ref name="Reardon">{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Reardon S |title=Why don't kids tend to get as sick from Covid-19? |journal=[[Knowable Magazine]] |date=2 September 2021 |doi=10.1146/knowable-090121-1 |s2cid=239653475 |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2021/why-dont-kids-tend-get-sick-covid19 |access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref> The CDC reports that in the US roughly a third of hospitalised children were admitted to the ICU,<ref>{{#invoke:Cite web||title=Information for Pediatric Healthcare Providers |url=https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/pediatric-hcp.html |website=U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) |access-date=6 April 2021 |date=11 February 2020}}</ref> while a European multinational study of hospitalised children from June 2020, found that about 8% of children admitted to a hospital needed intensive care.<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Götzinger F, Santiago-García B, Noguera-Julián A, Lanaspa M, Lancella L, Calò Carducci FI, Gabrovska N, Velizarova S, Prunk P, Osterman V, Krivec U, Lo Vecchio A, Shingadia D, Soriano-Arandes A, Melendo S, Lanari M, Pierantoni L, Wagner N, L'Huillier AG, Heininger U, Ritz N, Bandi S, Krajcar N, Roglić S, Santos M, Christiaens C, Creuven M, Buonsenso D, Welch SB, Bogyi M, Brinkmann F, Tebruegge M  | title = COVID-19 in children and adolescents in Europe: a multinational, multicentre cohort study | journal = The Lancet. Child & Adolescent Health | volume = 4 | issue = 9 | pages = 653–661 | date = September 2020 | pmid = 32593339 | pmc = 7316447 | doi = 10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30177-2 }}</ref> Four of the 582 children (0.7%) in the European study died, but the actual mortality rate may be "substantially lower" since milder cases that did not seek medical help were not included in the study.<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Fang L, Karakiulakis G, Roth M | title = Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection? | journal = The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine | volume = 8 | issue = 4 | pages = e21 | date = April 2020 | pmid = 32171062 | pmc = 7118626 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30311-1 }}</ref><ref name="CDC 2020children">{{#invoke:Cite web||url=https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/children-faq.html|title=Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)|date=11 February 2020|website=U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) |access-date=2 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302064104/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/children-faq.html|archive-date=2 March 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>