Abstract
COVID-19 is the name given to the disease caused by the new coronavirus, called SARS CoV-2, whichoriginated in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China in December 2019 and which quicklyspread around the world. For reasons that are still unclear, children and adolescents withCOVID-19 have less severe symptoms and much lower case fatality compared toadults and even with other viral diseases that af…