Specialists from the USA, using information from Premier Healthcare about cases of coronavirus, identified about 20,700 patients. 52.9% of which are girls and 53.8% are teenagers 12-18 years old, according to the JAMA Network Open portal.

According to experts, 1/3 of all children suffered from chronic diseases, every third of those hospitalized had a severe form of coronavirus. Scientists, after conducting research, were able to find a relationship between such a large percentage of severe cases in people with chronic disorders.

Experts have found that not only the presence of chronic diseases can cause complications. Among hospitalized children aged 2 to 5 and 6 to 11, severe disease was more common than in adolescents aged 12-18.

In addition, scientists noticed that boys had more severe cases than girls..

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