Older kids are just as likely to spread the coronavirus as adults are, according to a new South Korean study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
In the study, researchers analyzed contact tracing reports of 5,706 South Korean patients with COVID-19 and the more than 59,000 people they came into contact with during the period of Jan. 20 to March 27, 2020. On average, nearly 12 percent of people sharing the same household with someone who had tested positive for the coronavirus became infected themselves, compared with less than 2 percent of people who were not sharing a household when they came into contact with an infected patient.
However, when the researchers grouped COVID-19 patients by age, some interesting data emerged: They found that children in the 10- to 19-year-old age group had the highest COVID-19 transmission rate when it came to infecting others in their household during school closure. In contrast, children ages up to 9 had the lowest rate of spreading the virus to their household contacts .
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