Severe cases of COVID-19 in children with sickle cell disease during the Omicron wave in France: a plea for vaccination

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pediatrics, Hôpital René Dubos, Pontoise, France.
• ² Internal Medicine Department, French National Sickle Cell Referral Center, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
• ³ Paediatric Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Maison de la Femme de la Mère et de l'Enfant, Fort de France, France.
• ⁴ Department of General Pediatrics, Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Trousseau Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
• ⁵ Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Sickle Cell Center, Necker-Enfants malades Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Université de Paris, Paris, France.
• ⁶ Department of Paediatric Hemato-oncology, University Hospital of Rennes, Rennes, France.
• ⁷ CH Sud Francilien, Corbeil-Essonnes, France.
• ⁸ Grand Hôpital de l'Est Francilien (GHEF), Meaux, France.
• ⁹ Referral Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital, University Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
• ¹⁰ CH Mayotte, Mamoudzou, France.
• ¹¹ Department of Pediatric Hematology, Bordeaux Hospital, Bordeaux, France.
• ¹² Institute of Paediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
• ¹³ Faculty of medicine, Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.