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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Of those aged younger than 21 years with deaths associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), most are aged 10 to 20 years, and 75 percent of deaths occur in those with an underlying medical condition, according to research published in the Sept. 15 early-release issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Danae Bixler, M.D., from the CDC COVID-19 Response Team, and colleagues describe characteristics of U.S. persons aged younger than 21 years who died in association with SARS-CoV-2 infection.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that 63 percent of the 121 SARS-CoV-2-associated deaths reported to the CDC during Feb. 12, 2020, to July 31, 2020 occurred in males; 10, 20, and 70 percent of decedents were aged <1 year, 1 to 9 years, and 10 to 20 years, respectively; and 45, 29, and 4 percent were Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native (AI\/AN), respectively. Seventy-five percent of the decedents had an underlying medical condition. Overall, 65 and 32 percent died after admission to a hospital and at home or in the emergency department, respectively.<\/p>\n
“Adolescents and young adults, Hispanic, Black, and AI\/AN persons, and persons with underlying medical conditions are disproportionately represented among deaths associated with SARS-CoV-2 in persons aged <21 years,\" the authors write.<\/p>\n