Children with sickle cell disease: are they protected from serious COVID-19?

• Main Authors: Walaa Aboulkasem Shahin (Author), Hayam Aldeeb (Author), Majed Alsulami (Author), Abdullah Tammas (Author), Fatma Albatniji (Author), Aljawhara Almanea (Author), Abdalla Mohamed Zayed (Author), Fahad Alabbas (Author), Azzah Alzahrani (Author), Tahani Bin Ali (Author), Ghaleb Elyamany (Author), Rana Hassan Almaghrabi (Author), Huda Elfaraidi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundCOVID-19, the pandemic that hit the world in 2020, resulted in millions of deaths, with the elderly and adults succumbing to the disease more often than children. However, the presence of underlying morbidities increased the risk of death. Sickle cell disease (SCD) was previously classifie...