A study of over 1,000 children known to have contracted the novel coronavirus shows that only one developed severe complications of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus, Yahoo Style U.K. reports.
A team of Italian scientists conducted a meta-study — that is, a collective review and analysis of multiple other studies — of the coronavirus in children. The 18 studies reviewed by the Italian team revealed that, of 1,065 kids under the age of 19 who tested positive for coronavirus, only one of them developed severe complications of COVID-19.
The one child who was severely ill was a 13-month-old baby, who battled back from the disease and lived. He or she developed pneumonia and was placed on a ventilator. The baby also went into shock and kidney failure, but he or she recovered.
The remaining 1,064 children all had mild symptoms, such as cough or fatigue, or no symptoms at all.
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