Title: Decreased severity and incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in younger patients with bone marrow failure: Description of 4 clinical cases.
Paul Castillo1, Farid Boulad2, Monica Bhatia3, Staci Arnold4, Jeffrey Lipton5, Winfred Wang6, Jason Farrar7, Vandy Black1, Carolyn Bennett4, Akiko Shimamura8, Peter Kurre9, Adrianna Vlachos5.
1UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608
2Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, New York, NY 10065
3Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, New York, NY 10032
4Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
5Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York - Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Queens, NY 11040
6St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Clinical Hematology Division, Memphis, TN 38105
7Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72202
8Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
9Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Pediatric Research Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Corresponding author:
Paul Castillo, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology
University of Florida
1600 SW Archer Rd, HD-209
Gainesville, FL 32608
Email: castillopa@ufl.edu
Phone: (352) 273-9123
Word count: 442
Running title: SARS-CoV-2 and Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
Keywords: Bone Marrow Failure, COVID19, Infections in immunocompromised hosts