Younger and rural children are more likely to be hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 infections

• Rebecca M. Cantu ,

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

  * E-mail: rmcantu@uams.edu

  Affiliations Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Sara C. Sanders,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Grace A. Turner,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Jessica N. Snowden,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Ashton Ingold,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Susanna Hartzell,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Suzanne House,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Dana Frederick,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Uday K. Chalwadi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Eric R. Siegel,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Joshua L. Kennedy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Internal Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1919-9051

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