• Epidemiol Serv Saude · Jan 2020

    Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome due to COVID-19 among children and adolescents in Brazil: profile of deaths and hospital lethality as at Epidemiological Week 38, 2020.

    • Danúbia Hillesheim, Yaná Tamara Tomasi, Thamara Hübler Figueiró, and Karina Mary de Paiva.
    • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
    • Epidemiol Serv Saude. 2020 Jan 1; 29 (5): e2020644.

    ObjectiveTo describe the profile of deaths and the lethality of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) due to COVID-19 in hospitalized children and adolescents in Brazil.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study conducted with data from the SARS notification forms of children and adolescents (0 to 19 years old) with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. Notifications with complete progression of SARS due to COVID-19 were included, up to the 38th Epidemiological Week of 2020.Results6,989 hospitalizations were investigated, 661 died, resulting in 9.5% hospital lethality. Higher lethality rates were observed among children under 1 year of age (14.2%), female children and adolescents (9.7%), the indigenous (23.0%), and those living in rural areas (18.1 %), as well as in the Northeast (15.4%) and North (9.7%) regions of Brazil.ConclusionDifferences in hospital mortality were found according to sociodemographic characteristics and marked regional inequalities.

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