Report: Infant with severe COVID-19 successfully treated

A study in The New England Journal of Medicine details the case of a 3-week-old infant with COVID-19 in Texas who arrived at the hospital with low oxygen saturation, temperature of 97 degrees, reduced eating, rapid breathing, and heart rate and nasal congestion, and was transferred to a pediatric intensive care unit with continued rapid heart rate and breathing, hypothermia, and low blood pressure, with lung X-rays showing signs of pneumonia. The infant was discharged from the PICU after five days on a ventilator and treatment with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin and had recovered on day nine.

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