Michelle N Stram, Alan C Seifert, Etty Cortes, Alara Akyatan, Emma Woodoff-Leith, Valeriy Borukhov, Amber Tetlow, Dimath Alyemni, Michael Greenberg, Avneesh Gupta, Amanda Krausert, Lauren Mecca, Sophia Rodriguez, Jay Stahl-Herz, Miguel A Guzman, Bradley Delman, John F Crary, Kristen Dams-O'Connor, Rebecca D Folkerth
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are few published accounts of postmortem SARS-CoV-2 pathology in children. We report 8 such cases (4 infants aged 7-36 weeks, 4 children aged 5-15 years). Four underwent ex vivo magnetic resonance neuroimaging, to assist in identification of subtle lesions related to vascular compromise. All infants were found unresponsive (3 in unsafe sleeping conditions); all but 1 had recent rhinitis and/or influenza-like illness (ILI) in the family; 1 had history of sickle cell disease...
2022: Frontiers in Neurology