CONCLUSION
We detected in our study that children with COVID-19 infection can have
a wide range of symptoms. While 40% of the patients have
gastrointestinal symptoms with fever or respiratory symptoms, 15% of
the patients have only gastrointestinal symptoms without fever or
respiratory symptoms. In our knowledge, our study is the first study
conducted according to the number of symptoms, and it is seen that
pediatric COVID-19 patients presents with an average of four symptoms.
It is seen that especially adolescent children can present with very
different symptoms. COVID-19 infection is seen to be milder and cause
less hospitalizations and patient deaths in children. We consider that
especially crowded indoor environments are the main centers of the
spread of the outbreak and children are unlikely to be the main source
of infection of the pandemic.