Coronavirus may not start with a fever in children but with diarrhea and fatigue instead, a new study suggests. Researchers at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, looked at five hospitalized children under five years old. For the study, published in Frontiers, the team looked at five children admitted to Wuhan Children's Hospital between January 23 January and February 20. The other two acute gastroenteritis, which when a patients has diarrhea or vomiting (or both) for more than seven days. By comparison, a study from February reported that just 10 percent of adult COVID-19 patients initially had diarrhea and nausea before fever.

Source: Daily Mail May 12, 2020 15:16 UTC