Introduction:

children and adolescents infected by SARS-CoV-2 generally evolve asymptomatically or with mild symptoms, although they may develop severe forms of the disease.

Objective:

to describe aspects related to the history of coronaviruses, clinical and epidemiological picture of children and adolescents diagnosed with COVID-19.

Methods:

bibliographic review where 40 scientific articles on the subject were analyzed, using the descriptors SARS-COV2 and COVID-19 obtained from the databases obtained from PubMed, Scielo and Google Scholar, 25 were referenced as bibliography. Articles published during the last five years and others were predominant due to their relevance.

Development:

the outbreak of COVID-19 disease became a global public health challenge, causing thousands of deaths every day around the world. Despite the epidemiological importance and the harm caused at all ages, the clinical patterns of children with COVID-19 are unclear. The respiratory disease has a broad spectrum ranging from a inconsequential upper respiratory condition to respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with COVID-19 infection, so far data from pediatric patients.

Conclusions:

Children and adolescents play a very important role in the viral transmission chain. Therefore, it is recommended that health professionals caring for children should be alert to make the diagnosis, since most of these patients are asymptomatic or present mild symptoms that may coincide with other respiratory germs.

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