Index – Tech-Science – Parents’ lives are less threatened by coronavirus

Living with children does not affect the risk of developing severe symptoms caused by the new coronavirus in adults, British researchers have found.

Experts analyzed data from nine million adults under the age of 65 between February and August to compare the risk of severe symptoms from a coronavirus with a child living in a household and without a child, writes BBC.com.

Living with people under the age of 18 has been found to not increase the risk of someone becoming seriously ill or possibly dying from SARS-Cov-2 due to the novel Covid-19 coronavirus.

Researchers from the London Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (LSHTM) and the University of Oxford have found that adults living with children of primary school age or younger are not more likely to contract a coronavirus infection or be hospitalized for it.

Adults with high school-age children are eight percent more likely to contract a coronavirus infection, but not an increased risk of being hospitalized. These adults are 27 percent less likely to die from the disease. Presumably healthier than childless children of a similar age.

The still unpublished study looked at the period between February and August, thus also covering the period when British schools were open and also when they were largely closed after March 20 and only a few children visited the institutions. It also included a summer break, but no longer the restart of schools in September.

Scientists have also considered factors such as smoking, socioeconomic deprivation, ethnicity, and chronic health problems in their work.