Hospitalizations and Clinical Severity of COVID-19 Among Infants Under 1-Year-old

Roy Alshech; Hanna Shoob; Chen Stein-Zamir

doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000004045

Hospitalizations and Clinical Severity of COVID-19 Among Infants Under 1-Year-old

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 Nov 1;42(11):e400-e402. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000004045. Epub 2023 Jul 31.

Authors

Roy Alshech^{1

2}, Hanna Shoob², Chen Stein-Zamir^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ From the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
² Department of epidemiology, Jerusalem District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Israel.

PMID: 37523511
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000004045

Abstract

This study evaluated COVID-19 hospitalizations and clinical severity in infants (<1-year-old, n = 2,667), March 2020-March 2021. Hospitalizations were associated with younger age [OR (95%CI): <1 month, 26.3 (16.1-43.1), 1-2 months, 4.7 (3.1-7.34), 3-11 months, 1.0 (referece, 1.0-1.0)] and symptomatic disease, mainly with fever. Moderate-severe COVID-19 disease was associated with infants age above 3 months [OR (95% CI): 4.0 (1.4-11.1)], ethnicity and underlying conditions.