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Role of Children In Transmission

Current data shows that infection rates of SARS-CoV-2 are low among children. It then can be said that they do not play a prominent role in the disease transmission of COVID-19 during the pandemic. Although the actual infection rate cannot be known due to under-reporting and a lack of available results from seroepidemiological studies, there are numerous findings against an increased risk of infection from children and findings that show a lower rate of infection and of contagion especially in children under the age of 10. It was also found that the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is typically from an infected adult to a child and that a lack of evidence remains for the transmission of infection from an infected child to an adult. The cause of this lower virus transmission rate is still unknown, which calls for further investigations.

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Updated 2020-09-25

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences