Spotlight for healthy adolescents and adolescents with preexisting chronic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic

Recently, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus that causes the emerging infectious disease was designated by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (,). COVID-19 has been reported predominantly in adult patients. The clinical, laboratorial, and radiographic abnormalities for adults with COVID-19 include fever, dry cough, myalgia, fatigue, chest discomfort, respiratory frequency >30/min, blood oxygen saturation