#COVID19 #peds folks:
What’s a good resource for symptom profiles of #COVID19 in kids?

Ideally identifying symptoms with best discriminatory power/ #PPV for #COVID19 vs. other common childhood illnesses? @apsmunro @ShamezLadhani #PedsICU 1/

At a webinar I gave Friday, a local official said they are struggling to put together guidelines for daycares: What symptoms should merit sending a child home and quarantining them/excluding them from childcare for a set time? #COVID19 2/

I thought it was a great & important question. Ideally we’d have free, quick, easily available #SARSCoV2 testing for these circumstances... but here in much of US, we don’t. So childcare facilities reopening are relying on symptoms and parent reports of exposure... 3/

I recall an article that evaluated symptoms in adults and concluded that loss of smell was a symptom with high #PPV for #COVID19 in adults. Not extremely sensitive (absent in many cases) but a clear warning when present. Any similar research in kids? Fin/