Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 in Adolescents and Young Adults
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● Adolescents and young adults are more involved in frequent social-activity, overseas studying, and international working or tourism, which make them to be susceptible to worldwide spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
● Adolescent and younger patients of COVID-19 had a median incubation period of 8 days and 50% of their family contacts could develop illness within 1.4 days after exposure.
● Three asymptomatic patients have infected their family contacts.
● Few adolescent and young adult patients showed severe clinical signs and symptoms such as bacterial pneumonia changes by Chest CT findings, fever, and shortness of breath.
● Most adolescent and young adult patients had better prognosis outcomes after treatment.
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Liao, J., Fan, S., Chen, J., Wu, J., Xu, S., Guo, Y., Li, C., Zhang, X., Wu, C., Mou, H., Song, C., Li, F., Wu, G., Zhang, J., Guo, L., Liu, H., Lv, J., Xu, L. and Lang, C. Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 in Adolescents and Young Adults. The Innovation 1 (1), 100001 (2020). doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2020.04.001
