Du H, Dong X, Zhang JJ, et al. - The clinical characteristics of COVID‐19 children with different severities and allergic status were examined via analyzing data retrieved from the electronical medical records of 182 hospitalized COVID‐19 children (median age: 6 years, ranging from 3 days to 15 years; male‐female ratio about 2:1). Common symptoms reported were fever (43.4%) and dry cough (44.5%), and gastrointestinal manifestations, including diarrhea, abdominal discomfort and vomiting, accounted for 11.0%. Abnormal chest computed tomography (CT) scan images were reported in 71.4%, and ground‐glass opacity and local patchy shadowing on admission were the typical signs of pneumonia. Observations revealed a tendency for mild clinical course in pediatric COVID‐19 patients. Higher proportion of fever and cough and increased inflammatory biomarkers were reported in patients with pneumonia vs those without. Allergic and non‐allergic COVID‐19 children did not differ in disease incidence, clinical features, laboratory and immunological findings. In children, they did not identify allergy as a risk factor for developing and severity of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection; it hardly affected the disease course of COVID‐19.