Daniel Farrar, Charlotte Moore Hepburn, Olivier Drouin, Tala El Tal, Marie-Paule Morin, Roberta Berard, Melanie King, Melanie Laffin Thibodeau, Krista Baerg, Guillaume Beaudoin-Bussières, Camille Beaufils, Terri-Lyn Bennett, Susanne Benseler, Kevin Chan, Claude Cyr, Nagib Dahdah, Elizabeth Donner, Joanne Embree, Catherine Farrell, Andrés Finzi, Sarah Forgie, Ryan Giroux, Kristopher Kang, Bianca Lang, Ronald Laxer, Brian McCrindle, Julia Orkin, Jesse Papenburg, Catherine Pound, Victoria Price, Jean-Phillippe Proulx-Gauthier, Rupeena Purewal, Manish Sadarangani, Marina Salvadori, Roseline Thibeault, Karina Top, Isabelle Viel-Thériault, Elie Haddad, Rosie Scuccimarri, Rae Yeung, Fatima Kakkar, Shaun Morris
BACKGROUND: Direct comparisons of paediatric hospitalizations for acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) can inform health system planning. We describe the absolute and relative hospital burden of acute paediatric COVID-19 and MIS-C in Canada. METHODS: This national prospective study was conducted via the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program from March 2020-May 2021. Children younger than 18 years old and hospitalized for acute COVID-19 or MIS-C were included in the analysis...
April 1, 2023: Canada Communicable Disease Report