Hospital admissions linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents: cohort study of 3.2 million first ascertained infections in England

Harrison Wilde, Chris Tomlinson, Bilal A Mateen, David Selby, Hari Krishnan Kanthimathinathan, Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Pascale Du Pre, Mae Johnson, Nazima Pathan, Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Alvina G Lai, Deepti Gurdasani, Christina Pagel, Spiros Denaxas, Sebastian Vollmer, Katherine Brown, on behalf of the CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT consortium

July 2023

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📰 Selected media coverage

Pregnant women urged to get booster jab after study shows babies at high risk of serious Covid. Tom Bawden, iNews. 16/07/2023.
COVID in kids: younger children and those from deprived areas are at higher risk of being hospitalised – new research. Katherine Brown & Christina Pagel, The Conversation. 05/07/2023.
England-wide study of 3.2 million infections sheds light on COVID impact on children. HDR-UK. 05/07/2023.

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