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Have scientists been able to confirm that the virus just isn't infecting children, versus infecting them asymptomatically? Is this new strain more symptomatic

Have scientists been able to confirm that the virus just isn't infecting children, versus infecting them asymptomatically? Is this new strain more symptomatic in children? Essentially: does the UK do baseline testing (whether or not you appear symptomatic, unlike the US) across all age groups to a point that we can tell children are now being infected at a higher rate?

frereubu 6y ago
There are a number of programmes like this one at Imperial - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/197217/home-testing-coronavirus-track-levels-infection/ https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/197217/home-testing-coronavi... and another that I can't find a link to at UCL. The UCL one in particular was about regular whole-family testing, although I pity the parents who try to regularly test their kids - my 5-year-old would probably chew her own arm off rather than have a cotton bud shoved a long way up her nose again... Edit: This was also an interesting BBC podcast where they spoke to a researcher who found antibodies that respond to this coronavirus in blood samples from children that were taken years before this outbreak, suggesting that children have some kind of pre-existing immunity: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mzpr https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mzpr