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COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, is present in more than 200 countries and regions and is having a devastating impact worldwide. The sheer number of critical and convalescent patients—including pediatric patients— represents a challenge to the global medical community.
Although children with COVID-19 are often asymptomatic or exhibit only mild symptoms, they can transmit the disease and suffer from serious manifestations. In Cuba, 2932 patients ≤18 years old tested positive for COVID-19 between March 2020 and February 1, 2021. Most of these children presented few to no symptoms upon diagnosis. At the time of this writing, 82.8% of those children had recovered, and there had not been a single pediatric death due to the novel coronavirus.