BREAKING: Children have at least as much virus in their nose and throat as adults do—and kids younger than 5 may have up to 100 times as much. This doesn’t *prove* that they transmit the virus, of course, but it’s suggestive.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/health/coronavirus-children.html …
Yes I was pointing to kids under five having potentially higher loads. Symptomatic kids (5-~14) are disproportionately rare in almost all studies in all countries. Ticks up but still relatively fewer after that too. Seems pretty undisputed, no? Part of the puzzle.
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Maybe, maybe not? There are huge numbers of asymptomatic adults, too. Could be as simple as who has somewhat recently been exposed to a common cold coronavirus. I’m just not sure the epidemiology on asymptomatic adults is any different than kids—we don’t know enough about either
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I disagree. We have six months of data, the children are clearly different and it is a puzzle. And so many papers from so many countries do show symptomatic kids are relatively rare. I think it’s fairly undisputed by now. Solid review I’m sure you’ve seen. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2024920 …
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