Symptomatology and racial disparities amongst children undergoing universal preoperative COVID-19 screening at three US children's hospitals: Early pandemic through resurgence.

2020 
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has seen>48 million confirmed cases worldwide as ofNovember 6, 2020.The infection rate amongst children was initially reported to be low, with children constituting only 2% of recorded cases. However, this reflected testing for COVID-19 only when symptomatic or with known close contact with an infected person(1). The purpose of this reportis to describe the characteristics of pediatric patients undergoing universal testing for COVID-19 during routine preoperativescreening at threetertiarychildren's hospitals across the United States.
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