A new study suggests that kids under five may carry a higher viral load of COVID-19, but experts say parents shouldn't necessarily worry.
For months, experts have stressed that younger children are less likely to transmit COVID-19 and usually do not experience serious cases of the virus. But a new small study is calling some of that into question., analyzed the results of nasopharyngeal swabs collected in March and April on 145 COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate illness. The swabs were taken within a week of the patients — who ranged one month to 65 years old — experiencing symptoms.
It’s important to note that the study is small, but it does seem to challenge what we already know about COVID-19 in children. “We are always learning more about COVID-19 and we may start changing the way we think about how this virus is being transmitted,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life. “This has COVID-19 looking very much like influenza,.
in July found that children younger than age 10 are less likely than adults to spread COVID-19 to other people. The study also found that children between the ages of 10 and 19 can spread the virus as efficiently as adults. That particular study has been cited by some as evidence that younger children, at least, should resume in-person schooling.
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