MATERIAL METHOD
278 pediatric patients were included in this study, whose files were accessed and treated with the diagnosis of COVID-19 at the Saglik Bilimleri University Diyarbakir Gazi Yasargil Training and Research Hospital COVID-19 clinic between 15 March 2020 and 30 September 2020, were included. The study was approved by the Saglik Bilimleri University Diyarbakir Gazi Yasargil Training and Research Hospital Ethics Committee (2018/20). The patients were divided into 2 groups. Patients diagnosed with COVID-19 with PCR (+) and patients who had close contact with COVID-19 patients despite having PCR (-) and who were diagnosed with COVID-19 according to the diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization with the help of clinical laboratory and radiological findings were included. Patients who had PCR (-) and did not have close contact with COVID-19 patients or whose clinical laboratory and radiological findings did not fully support the diagnosis of COVID-19 were not included in the study. COVID 19 virus infection was diagnosed using nasal or nasopharyngeal swab samples taken in line with national recommendations by trained medical practitioners, and real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction tests recommended by WHO (8).