With parents and policymakers agonizing over when to reopen schools as lockdowns ease, scientists are still struggling to find out how the new coronavirus affects children. | AFP
This is one of the few questions where there is broad agreement. Only a tiny proportion of children appear to have become seriously ill with COVID-19.
It said this is because children catch the virus, but generally exhibit only “mild” symptoms—or no symptoms at all—meaning they go uncounted. Their conclusions were based on several international contact tracing studies that looked at how the disease spread and to whom. None of them contracted COVID-19, not even the youngster’s two siblings. But the child did transmit other winter viruses, including the flu.
In recent weeks, a spate of cases of children affected by an inflammatory illness resembling a rare condition called Kawasaki disease has caused alarm. In an article published this week in the medical journal The Lancet, British doctors describing eight cases observed in London said it could be “a new phenomenon” affecting previously asymptomatic children with the coronavirus “manifesting as a hyperinflammatory syndrome.”
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