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Interesting explanation for why children rarely get sick or transmit this disease: > Fattahi’s team has found evidence suggesting that male sex hormones such a
by tomohawk 6y ago
Interesting explanation for why children rarely get sick or transmit this disease:
> Fattahi’s team has found evidence suggesting that male sex hormones such as testosterone may increase the number of ACE2 receptors that cells produce, which could help explain why SARS-CoV-2 seems to wreak greater havoc on men than on women and why kids rarely get sick.
- zspade 6y agoThis is only true for Children under 10. Children over 10 transmit contract and transmit at similar rates. Considering 11 is when puberty kicks in for many kids, this appears to support Fattahi's findings. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-children-schools.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-childr...)
- tomohawk 6y agoThat article puts people in 10 year bins, so it is not useful to determine what the cutoff age should be with more granularity than 10 years of age. However, Sweden did not close school for children through 14 years of age. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-rare-opportunity-study-coronavirus-schools https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-ra... And their excess mortality rates for that age group are indistinguishable from other European countries: https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps When you go to that link, near the bottom select graphs by age and see that Sweden ages 0-14 looks like all the other countries shown there. I think that is a pretty good indication. We have a country that kept their schools open and a number of countries that did not, and the results look the same. EDIT: in fact, the excess mortality for that age group looks indistinguishable from other years.