CONCLUSION
Pediatric patients represent a fundamental population to assess during
the COVID-19 pandemic since their characteristics differ from adults.
Despite our study has limitations due to the variability among
studies, we could summarize the current evidence available, following
these key points: A great amount of cases were diagnosed after contact
with an infected family member, the majority of cases in children would
be non-severe, nevertheless children less than 1 year old could be at
higher risk of develop severe/critical disease. Symptoms frequencies
encountered in children from major to minor are fever, cough, vomit,
diarrhea and abdominal pain. Clinicians have to be aware of atypical
presentations among children. Finally, more studies will be necessary to
assess the key role of children could play in based-community
transmission, more testing in children should be done in order to
understand transmission characteristics in the pediatric population.
Caution must be taken in children returning to school, they could be the
focus of new outbreaks.