Children are primary carriers of coronavirus, researchers say / Boing Boing


Children are primary carriers of coronavirus, researchers say / Boing Boing

Children under the age of 5 who show symptoms of COVID-19 have higher concentrations of the virus than any other age group, according to a study published today in the JAMA Pediatrics diary.

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“One of the things that came up in the school-wide reopening discussion is: Since kids are less sick, is it because they have fewer viruses?” Said Taylor Heald-Sargent, lead author and pediatric infectious disease specialist. at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

“And our data does not support that,” he told Fortune. As a result, “we cannot assume that children cannot transmit the virus.”