Clinical-epidemiological profile of children and adolescents with diagnosis for covid-19 and influenza in pernambuco

Among the pandemics that devastated humanity in the last 100 years, those caused by influenza viruses, belonging to the Orthomyxoviridae family, stand out. In December 2019, incity ofWuhan, China, a new coronavirus has been identifiedbelonging to the subfamily Coronaviridae. The etiological agent causing the new pandemic characterized as COVID-19 is the Sars-CoV-2 betacoronavirus, which infect animals and humans in a wide variety.This is a descriptive cross-sectional epidemiological study. The population used includes all children (<1 year to 9 years old) and adolescents (10 to 19 years old) according to the World Health Organization (WHO), as reported and/or confirmed cases of COVID-19 and influenza A, registered in the National System of Notifiable Diseases (SINAN) from January 2020 to December 2021. The State of Pernambuco began to issue epidemiological bulletins regarding the panorama of COVID-19 from March 2020, where in same monthA case of a 10-year-old boy was recorded, with a history of travel to the United States, being the first confirmed case, of the new coronavirus in the child age group.New proposals for studies that address detailed descriptions of the epidemiological surveillance processes of Covid-19 and influenza A directed at the clinical and epidemiological profile of both diseases are necessary to expand the technical-scientific support for this profile.Thus, the relevance of investments in research that focus on the previous health, social and economic conditions of children and adolescents with COVID-19 and influenza A in different contexts is reinforced, so that measures to control, prevent and combat the disease are established. That devastates the state, Brazil and the societies of the world, that can contribute to the public health process regarding the fight against Covid-19 and influenza A.