COVID-19

2020 - 2021 - Concluded

Principal Investigators

Shaun Morris, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FAAP, University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children; tel.: 416-813-6625; [email protected]

Fatima Kakkar, MD, MPH, Université de Montréal and CHU Sainte-Justine; tel.: 514-345-4931 x5566; [email protected]

Charlotte Moore Hepburn, MD, FRCPC, FAAP, University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children; tel.: 613-526-9397 x 239; [email protected]

Study results can be found in

CPSP 2021 Results

Published papers

  • COVID-19

    Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome in Canada: Population-based surveillance and role of SARS-CoV-2 linkage. El Tal T, Morin MP, Morris SK, Farrar DS, Berard RA, Kakkar F, et al. Pediatr Res 2023 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-023-02668-1

    Resource use and disease severity of children hospitalized for COVID-19 versus multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in Canada. Farrar DS, Moore Hepburn C, Drouin O, El Tal T, Morin MP, Berard R, et al. Can Commun Dis Rep 2023;49(4):103−12. https://doi.org/10.14745/ccdr.v49i04a03

    Clinical manifestations and disease severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection among infants in Canada. Piché-Renaud PP, Panetta L, Farrar DS, Moore Hepburn C, Drouin O, Papenburg J, et al. PLOS ONE 17(8): e0272648 (Preprint 2022 Aug 24). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272648

    Risk factors for severe COVID-19 in hospitalized children in Canada: A national prospective study from March 2020–May 2021. Farrar DS, Drouin O, Moore Hepburn C, Baerg K, Chan K, Cyr C, et al. Lancet Reg Health Am 2022 Nov;15:100337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100337. Epub 2022 Aug 1

    Characteristics of children hospitalized with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in Canada in 2020. Drouin O, Moore Hepburn C, Farrar DS, Baerg K, Chan K, Cyr C, et al. CMAJ 2021 Sep 27;193:E1483-93. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/193/38/E1483

    Risk factors for severe COVID-19 in hospitalized children in Canada: A national prospective study from March 2020–May 2021. Farrar DS, Drouin O, Moore Hepburn C, Baerg K, Chan K, Cyr C, Donner EJ, Embree JE, Farrell C, Forgie S, Giroux R, Kang KT, King M, Laffin Thibodeau M, Orkin J, Ouldali N, Papenburg J, Pound CM, Price VE, Proulx-Gauthier JP, Purewal R, Ricci C, Sadarangani M, Salvadori MI, Thibeault R, Top KA, Viel-Thériault I, Kakkar F, Morris SK. Lancet Reg Health Am 2022 Nov;15:100337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100337. Epub 2022 Aug 1

  • Characteristics of children admitted to hospital with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in Canada in 2020

    Characteristics of children admitted to hospital with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in Canada in 2020. Olivier Drouin MDCM MSc MPH, Charlotte Moore Hepburn MD, Daniel S. Farrar MPH, Krista Baerg BSN MD, Kevin Chan MD MPH, Claude Cyr MD MSc, Elizabeth J. Donner MD MSc, Joanne E. Embree MD, Catherine Farrell MD, Sarah Forgie MD MEd, Ryan Giroux MD, Kristopher T. Kang MD, Melanie King BA, Melanie Laffin BCom, Thuy Mai Luu MD MSc, Julia Orkin MD MSc, Jesse Papenburg MD MSc, Catherine M. Pound MD MSc, Victoria E. Price MBChB MSc, Rupeena Purewal MD, Manish Sadarangani BM BCh DPhil, Marina I. Salvadori MD, Karina A. Top MD MS, Isabelle Viel-Thériault MD, Fatima Kakkar MD MPH, Shaun K. Morris MD MPH; for the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program COVID-19 Study Team. CMAJ 2021 September 27;193:E1483-93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.210053