SARS-CoV-2–Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged <21 Years — United States, February 12–July 31, 2020

• DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6937e4
• Publication Date: 2020-09-15T16:27:05Z
• Authors: Danae Bixler; Allison D. Miller; Claire P. Mattison; Burnestine Taylor; Kenneth Komatsu; Xandy Peterson Pompa; Steve Moon; Ellora Karmarkar; Caterina Y. Liu; John J. Openshaw; Rosalyn E. Plotzker; Hilary E. Rosen; Nisha Alden; Breanna Kawasaki; Alan Siniscalchi; Andrea Leapley; Cherie Drenzek; Melissa Tobin-D'A...; Judy Kauerauf; Heather Reid; Eric Hawkins; Kelly White; Farah Ahmed; Julie Hand; Gillian Richardson; Theresa Sokol; Seth Eckel; Jim Collins; Stacy Holzbauer; Leslie Kollmann; Linnea Larson; Elizabeth Schiffman; Theresa S. Kittle; Kimberly Hertin; Vit Kraushaar; Devin Raman; Victoria LeGarde; Lindsey Kinsinger; Melissa Peek-Bullock; Jenna Lifshitz; Mojisola Ojo; Robert J Arciuolo; Alexander Davidson; Mary Huynh; Maura K. Lash; Julia Latash; Ellen H. Lee; Lan Li; Emily McGibbon; Natasha McIntosh-...; Renee Pouchet; Jyotsna S. Ramach...; Kathleen H. Reilly; Elizabeth Dufort; Wendy Pulver; Ariela Zamcheck; Erica Wilson; Sietske de Fijter; Ozair Naqvi; Kumar Nalluswami; Kirsten Waller; Linda J. Bell; Anna-Kathryn Burch; Rachel Radcliffe; Michelle D. Fiscus; Adele Lewis; Jonathan Kolsin; Stephen Pont; Andrea Salinas; Kelsey Sanders; Bree Barbeau; Sandy Althomsons; Sukhshant Atti; Jessica S. Brown; Arthur Chang; Kevin R. Clarke; S. Deblina Datta; John Iskander; Brooke Leitgeb; Talia Pindyck; Lalita Priyamvada; Sarah Reagan-Steiner; Nigel A. Scott; Laura J. Viens; Jonathan Zhong; Emilia H. Koumans; ; ; David Blythe; Laurel Harduar Mo...; Carla Black; Carter McCabe; Xia Lin
• Keywords: Male; Adolescent; Pneumonia, Viral; COVID-19; Infant; United States; 3. Good health; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Cause of Death; Child, Preschool; Humans; Female; Child; Coronavirus Infections; Pandemics

US Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control Prevention to mask wearing, physical distancing, hand hygiene).To ensure accurate surveillance, it is important that health care providers departments assure follow-up infants, children, adolescents, young adults infected with or exposed SARS-CoV-2 document report underlying medical conditions cause death related COVID-19.Health departments, in collaboration school districts the communities they serve, can evaluate improve promotion, access, equity all adults.Ultimately, providers, community partners mobilize remove systemic barriers contribute disparities.