Factors associated with pediatric COVID-19 mortality: A Pediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study.

Publication date: Jul 22, 2025

Factors associated with COVID-19 mortality are not well characterized in children. This Canadian-Caribbean case-control study identified 26 children who died of COVID-19 and matched them to 78 children hospitalized with COVID-19 who survived. Medical technology dependence and several comorbidities were associated with death which occurred in 0. 7% of COVID-19 admissions.

Concepts Keywords
Canada children
Caribbean COVID-19
Mortality mortality
Pediatric pediatric
Picnic

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH COVID-19
disease MESH Infections
disease MESH death
disease MESH Long Covid

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