id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-350406-o90k48vy Mannheim, Jonathan Characteristics of Hospitalized Pediatric Coronavirus Disease 2019 Cases in Chicago, Illinois, March–April 2020 2020-06-01 .txt text/plain 2104 114 44 BACKGROUND: To date, no report on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pediatric patients in a large urban center with data on underlying comorbidities and coinfection for hospitalized cases has been published. CONCLUSIONS: Enhanced case investigation of hospitalized patients revealed that underlying comorbidities and coinfection might have contributed to severe disease. On March 12, 2020, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) received its first report of a pediatric patient with laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 . Symptomology of children with COVID-19 throughout the United States has been described [1] ; however, to date no report on pediatric patients in a large urban center with data on underlying comorbidities and coinfection for the most severe cases has been published. Standard case investigation data were collected including demographic characteristics, signs and symptoms of illness, hospitalization (eg, date of admission, intensive care unit [ICU] requirement) and epidemiologic risk factors such as exposures to ill persons, travel, and comorbidities. ./cache/cord-350406-o90k48vy.txt ./txt/cord-350406-o90k48vy.txt