Dec 25, 2020 Children and teens hospitalized for Covid-19 have higher morbidity, mortality Findings from a nationwide, retrospective cohort study from France, which compared hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 in the spring of 2020 to those from influenza during a seasonal outbreak the previous year, confirmed that Covid-19 is a far more serious and deadly disease. Nearly twice as many Covid-19 hospitalizations were reported in March and April than influenza hospitalizations between Dec. 2018 and Feb. 2019, and deaths from Covid-19 were triple those reported for influenza during the respective periods. Surprisingly, the researchers found that even though children and adolescents with Covid-19 had a lower risk for hospitalization than those with influenza, they had a higher risk for ICU admission and death.