Insight into the Pediatric and Adult Dichotomy of COVID-19: Age-Related Differences in the Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 infection
Running title: Age-Related Differences in Immune Responses to COVID-19
Allison Fialkowski1, Yael Gernez2, Puneeta Arya 1,4, Katja G. Weinacht3, T. Bernard Kinane1,5, Lael M. Yonker1,5
1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2. Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
3. Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
4. Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA
5. Division of Pulmonary, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA
Corresponding Author:
Lael Yonker, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street, Jackson 14
Boston, MA 02114
617-724-2890
lyonker@mgh.harvard.edu
Keywords: SARS-Co-V-2 infection, pediatric COVID-19, childhood COVID-19, age-related immune response