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

📺 BHF Data Science Centre seminar by Prof Kate Brown & Dr Chris Tomlinson

Twitter thread by Christina Pagel summarising key results

🧵our new definitive @bmj_latest peer-reviewed paper on kids hospitalisations in England!https://t.co/AOkrjU01Rq

More accessible & shorter version in this @ConversationUK article from me & @katebrown220 https://t.co/nNQnxiFhrR

read on for the highlights! 1/15

— Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social (@chrischirp) July 5, 2023

Twitter thread by Deepti Gurdasani summarising key results

Our @bmj_latest paper led by @HarrisonDWilde out TLDR;
-21000 hosp admissions from COVID (caused or contributed) in children- England from July 2020-Feb 2022
-children<5 yrs & ethnic minorities most at risk
-admissions⬆️during omicron
- 38% would've been classified as CV by JCVI

— Dr. Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) July 10, 2023

📰 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.