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> There's also starting to appear evidence that kids might not be a serious disease vector, contrary to pretty much everyone's gut feeling. This is intriguing.
by lbeltrame 6y ago
> There's also starting to appear evidence that kids might not be a serious disease vector, contrary to pretty much everyone's gut feeling.
This is intriguing. Any source where I can dig up further?
- henrikschroder 6y agohttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/apr/school-closures-play-marginal-role-containing-covid-19-are-key-restarting-society https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/apr/school-closures-play-mar... "Professor Russell Viner (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) said, "We know from previous studies that school closures are likely to have the greatest effect if the virus has low transmissibility and attack rates are higher in children. This is the opposite of COVID-19.""
- lbeltrame 6y agoThanks a lot. The article had also a link to the paper, which I read. It's for sure interesting that with SARS the results were inconsistent, as opposed to flu pandemics.