Thursday, September 10, 2020

COVID-19, seasonal influenza clinical features compared

 

COVID-19, seasonal influenza clinical features compared

Researchers studied 315 youths with COVID-19 and more than 1,400 youths with seasonal influenza and found no statistically significant differences in the rates of hospitalization, admission to the intensive care unit and mechanical ventilator use between the two groups. However, the findings in JAMA Network Open also showed that pediatric COVID-19 patients were more likely to report symptoms such as fever, cough, diarrhea or vomiting, headache, body ache or chest pain at the time of diagnosis, compared with pediatric flu patients.

Full Story: HealthDay News (9/8) 

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