Pediatric Res: How the Impact of COVID19 on Children Should Be Studied

2020 May 20 News / BioValley BIOON / --- reports of groups of children infected with COVID-19 disease more and more, and symptoms of infection of the disease in our population of children understanding is very limited, which, I-ACT children's Research leading pediatric specialists and other researchers from published an article on "PediatricResearch" magazine, provides a route policy for the treatment of pediatric patients, aimed at more good understanding of children's diseases, and promote the development of potential treatments and vaccinesearly April, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calculates that in the United States about 1.7% of minors appeared COVID 19-infection (report of 2,572 people aged 149,082 people)Of these, 5.7% have a hospital, and was hospitalized adults was 10%In addition, COVID-19 will lead to children patients with severe symptoms or even death(Source: Www.pixabay.com)In this regard, the author outlines five key areas in need of emergency pediatric studies conducted:1understand children COVID -19 effect on neonatal infection in the development and progression, as well as infected mothers during pregnancyEarly evidence suggests that children COVID-19 infection is suffering from severe lower risk of disease, it still can not explain, it has not yet been confirmedTherefore, the need for adequate research to determine the pathophysiology and course after sick children, thus contributing to the development of optimal treatment and prevention strategies2ensure wide availability and rapid real-time diagnostic services in order to assess the prevalence and inform prevention strategiesbroader and more quickly identify infected children can help determine the role of the pandemic in the groups of children may play and help researchers understand the course of these childrenThe author believes that the current limitations of the detection surface may be significantly underestimated the number of infected children3children extensive testing antibodies, as a sign of susceptibilitydefinition of specific antibodies in the determination of COVID-19 infection immunity in the role not only need to advance vaccine strategies, but also need to better understand the extent of reaction to these infections in infants, thus avoiding new infections4establish special measures to test the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 treatment of pediatric patientsdeveloping methods of treatment in adults and tested, by extrapolation and other innovative research methods, help to guide and collect data for Pediatric Research acceleration5evaluation of vaccines and other preventive measures for childrenand new therapies as soon as possible ready to groups of children, including trials, including new vaccines is also important(Biovalley Bioon.com)Information Source:AroadmapforcriticalCOVID-19researchinchildrenOriginal source:GaryJ.NoeletalKeyclinicalresearchprioritiesforthepediatriccommunityduringtheCOVID-19pandemic,
PediatricResearch(2020) .DOI: 10.1038 / s41390-020-0962-y