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APRIL 19, 2023

Comorbidities and Insurance Coverage Influence Risk for IPD, Pneumonia and OM in Children


Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

 

 

Very young children with comorbidities as well as those who are on Medicaid see more pneumococcal disease than “healthy” children and those who are covered by commercial insurance, according to a study presented at ECCMID 2023: the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, in Copenhagen, Denmark (abstract 02c).

“In the first 2 years of