COVID-19 deaths in children and young people in England, March 2020 to December 2021: An active prospective national surveillance study

• Marta Bertran ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB and ZA-C are joint first authors on this work. SNL and GO are joint last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6226-1172

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• Zahin Amin-Chowdhury ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB and ZA-C are joint first authors on this work. SNL and GO are joint last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

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• Hannah G. Davies,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9064-0874

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• Hester Allen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation COVID-19 National Epidemiology Cell, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7213-5471

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• Tom Clare,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation COVID-19 National Epidemiology Cell, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1292-3673

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• Chloe Davison,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation COVID-19 National Epidemiology Cell, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

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• Mary Sinnathamby,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation COVID-19 National Epidemiology Cell, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

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• Giulia Seghezzo,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation COVID-19 National Epidemiology Cell, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0540-5897

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• Meaghan Kall,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation COVID-19 National Epidemiology Cell, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

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• Hannah Williams,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Joint Modelling Team (JMT), UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom, Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7615-6085

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• Nick Gent,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Joint Modelling Team (JMT), UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom, Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2605-7369

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• Mary E. Ramsay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

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• Shamez N. Ladhani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shamez.ladhani@ukhsa.gov.uk

  ¶‡ MB and ZA-C are joint first authors on this work. SNL and GO are joint last authors on this work.

  Affiliations Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0856-2476

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• Godwin Oligbu

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB and ZA-C are joint first authors on this work. SNL and GO are joint last authors on this work.

  Affiliations Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8863-3969

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