Combined forms of COVID-19 with acute respiratory viral infections in children

This article presents an observation of 12 patients with combined forms of COVID-19 and acute respiratory viral infections hospitalized at the Z.A. Bashlyaeva State Clinical Hospital, the purpose of which was to identify the features of the course of COVID-19 coronavirus infection in combination with acute respiratory viral infections of various etiologies in children. According to the data obtained, the incidence of COVID-19 and ARVI co-infections was 4.2%. There is a tendency to an increase in the number of patients with lower respiratory tract lesions, a tendency to a prolonged course of COVID-19 with concomitant ARVI, as well as an increase in the duration of hospitalization of patients.