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The current scenario of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in a huge disease burden worldwide affecting people across all age groups. Although children get infected by coronavirus, they are less commonly affected. Only 2% of cases are being reported among patients aged less than 20 years of age and childhood cases constitute around 1–5% of them. Moreover, they are less likely to be seriously affected when compared to adults, with more than 90% of them being either asymptomatic or having mild to moderate disease. This could be attributed to less exposure or sensitivity to COVID-19, varying immune response mechanisms, differences in the expression/function of the Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 receptors or higher antibody levels to viruses owing to exposures to multiple respiratory infections, protective role of measles and BCG vaccine, and few associated comorbidities. However, children with certain underlying medical conditions like cardiac or respiratory disease, diabetes, immunodeficiency disorders, cancer or on immunosuppressants may be at a higher risk for developing severe disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions in healthcare settings all over the world. During the lockdown period, teledermatology (TD) played a salient role in helping aggrieved patients receive treatment. Material and Method: The following is a retrospective, observational study carried out over 6 weeks at two centers in which TD consultations during the pandemic were evaluated. Results: A total of 300 patients (male:female = 167:133) with a mean age of 28.34±7.2 years were evaluated. The most common age group was 20-40 years old (40.66%; n = 122). Almost threefifths of the patients (58%; n = 174) consulted for the first time. Noninfectious conditions predominated (62%; n = 186), with eczema and dermatitis (19.3%; n = 57) being the most common, and with dermatophytosis and fungal infections (15.7%) being the most common among the infectious disorders. Conclusions: Because dermatology is a visual branch of medicine, TD has the potential to play a major role in providing dermatological care to a large number of patients in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How to manage high-risk asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers; COVID-19 poses a huge threat to public health and to dermatology specialty as well Novel corona virus 2019 (COVID-19) has spread throughout the globe like wildfire since December 2019. Data have shown that a combination of lymphopenia and a high C-reactive protein (CRP) may be sensitive in COVID-19 patients.9A recent study demonstrated that eosinopenia and elevated CRP may facilitate triage of COVID-19 patients in fever clinic.10 This combination should be used to screen asymptomatic but potentially infective patients who have not yet or may never develop symptoms. [Extracted from the article]