As schools across the country reopen, a new study details that children who have coronavirus but do not show symptoms can still spread the infection for weeks.
The discovery was made by two Washington-based scientists who analyzed South Korean children hospitalized because they tested positive for COVID-19 – however, about four in 10 had either no symptoms or only mild children. WW reports.
Roberta L. Debac and Meghan Delaney analyzed the cases of 91 children in 22 hospitals in South Korea because doctors there – unlike in the US – do not release patients until they have fully recovered.
The team found that about a fifth of the children never had symptoms; The first second fifth showed no symptoms, then the lighter ones developed; And the trimester had symptoms from the start.
DBAC and Dell have discovered a large range at the time that babies may have Covid-19 symptoms – from three days to three weeks. Half of the symptomatic children and one-fifth of the asymptomatic children were still infected with the coronavirus three weeks after infection.
His work, published on the Jama Pediatrics website on Friday, wrote on a study out of Boston that children carry many viruses, including coronavirus.
The Boston researchers, who published their findings in the journal Pedf Pediatrics on Aug. 1, took nose and throat scars from people under the age of 21. They found that children had higher levels of coronavirus than adults, with intensive care units. COVID-19 and very few ACE-2 receptors, which experts believe is the way the infection enters the body.
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