• Sanjay R Parikh, Randall A Bly, Juliana Bonilla-Velez, John P Dahl, Sean S Evans, David L Horn, Kaalan E Johnson, Scott C Manning, Henry C Ou, Prasanth Pattisapu, Jonathan A Perkins, and SieKathleen C YKCYDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington, USA..
• Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2020 Jun 1; 162 (6): 800-803.

AbstractCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel coronavirus resulting in high mortality in the adult population but low mortality in the pediatric population. The role children and adolescents play in COVID-19 transmission is unclear, and it is possible that healthy pediatric patients serve as a reservoir for the virus. This article serves as a summary of a single pediatric institution's response to COVID-19 with the goal of protecting both patients and health care providers while providing ongoing care to critically ill patients who require urgent interventions. A significant limitation of this commentary is that it reflects a single institution's joint effort at a moment in time but does not take into consideration future circumstances that could change practice patterns. We still hope dissemination of our overall response at this moment, approximately 8 weeks after our region's first adult case, may benefit other pediatric institutions preparing for COVID-19.

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