Race/Ethnicity Among Children With COVID-19-Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome

Ellen H Lee; Kelsey L Kepler; Anita Geevarughese; Rachel Paneth-Pollak; Marie S Dorsinville; Stephanie Ngai; Kathleen H Reilly

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.30280

Race/Ethnicity Among Children With COVID-19-Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Nov 2;3(11):e2030280. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.30280.

Authors

Ellen H Lee¹, Kelsey L Kepler¹, Anita Geevarughese¹, Rachel Paneth-Pollak¹, Marie S Dorsinville¹, Stephanie Ngai¹, Kathleen H Reilly¹

Affiliation

¹ Incident Command System Surveillance and Epidemiology Section, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, New York.

Abstract

This cohort study describes the distribution of race/ethnicity among cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)–associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children reported to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Publication types

Observational Study

MeSH terms

Asian / statistics & numerical data
Black or African American / statistics & numerical data
COVID-19 / ethnology*
Child
Child, Preschool
Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Hispanic or Latino / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander / statistics & numerical data
New York City / epidemiology
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data*
SARS-CoV-2*
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / ethnology*
White People / statistics & numerical data

Supplementary concepts

pediatric multisystem inflammatory disease, COVID-19 related