How should you manage a pediatric oncology patient who has an ANC > 500 and a normal chest x-ray but is confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 and is immunosuppressed from chemotherapy?
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Pediatric Infectious Disease · St Jude Children's Research Hospital
The treatment for pediatric patients with cancer who develop COVID-19 is very poorly defined. The risk of severe disease is unknown because although adults with cancer appear to have worse outcomes than those without, non-immunocompromised children seem to have few severe outcomes from the disease a...