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This too.Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds
The study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea suggests that school reopenings will trigger more outbreaks.
Children younger than 10 transmit to others much less often than adults do, but the risk is not zero.
And those between the ages of 10 and 19 can spread the virus at least as well as adults do.
The findings suggest that as schools reopen, communities will see clusters of infection take root that include children of all ages, several experts cautioned.
“I fear that there has been this sense that kids just won’t get infected or don’t get infected in the same way as adults and that, therefore, they’re almost like a bubbled population,”
Children under 10 were roughly half as likely as adults to spread the virus to others, consistent with other studies.
That may be because children generally exhale less air — and therefore less virus-laden air — or because they exhale that air closer to the ground, making it less likely that adults would breathe it in.
Children under 10 were roughly half as likely as adults to spread the virus to others, consistent with other studies
the large number of contacts for schoolchildren, who interact with dozens of others for a good part of the day, may cancel out their smaller risk of infecting others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/h...n-schools.html
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