People of this age are more infectious, Covid-19 study discovers
Children in this age group have the ability to spread CVID-19 similar to adults.
Since the first cases of COVID-19 have been detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, researchers have attempted to determine the impact of children when it comes to spreading the virus. Early, it has been established that younger people are spared from serious infections compared to the elderly, with very few children losing their lives as a result of infection.
However, it has been determined that children can be asymptomatic spreaders, infecting others despite symptoms of zero themselves.Now, a new study study shows how contagious children are and how old they can transmit the virus to the same rate as adults.
According to new research from South Korea published in US centers for disease control and disease prevention newspaperEmerging Infectious Diseases,Children aged 10 to 19 have the ability to spread Covid-19 within a household at the same rate as adults. People under the age of 10 can also disseminate the virus, but the rate at which they do are significantly.
Children are more likely to infect others
The researchers analyzed 59,073 contacts of 5,706 coronavirus patients detecting COVID-19 to 11.8% of 10,592 household contacts and 1.9% of 48,481 non-domestic contacts. They found that when the patient was under 10 years old, 5.3% of contacts within the positive tested household. However, when this patient was 10 to 19, the percentage jumped more than three times to 18.6%.
"The rates were higher for children's contacts that adults," explained the authors of the study - which means that this age group is more likely to infect others than adults.
This new research, the greatest study of its kind, could constitute a predictor of the reaction of schools in the middle of a pandemic could affect the health crisis, as the researchers determined that the highest rate of COVID-19 for household contacts of 10 to 19 years old and the lowest rates for people under 9 were in the middle of the closure of the school.
"Although the detection rate of preschooly elderly children is lower, young children can show higher attack rates when the closing of the school ends, contributing to the Community transmission of COVID-19 "," said the study.
The researchers emphasize that contact tracing "is particularly important in light of future future future vague SARS-COV-2, for which social distancing and personal hygiene will remain the most viable options for prevention." In addition, "understanding the role of hygiene and infection control measures is essential to the reduction of household gaps and the masking role in the house, especially if family members are high-risk ", they write.
Essential attenuation strategy
The study also notes the importance of the current mitigation strategy - which includes physical distancing, thus optimizing the likelihood of reducing individual, family and community illness. "The implementation of public health recommendations, including hand hygiene and respiratory tract, should be encouraged to reduce the transmission of SARS-COV-2 in affected households," add them.
As for yourself: stay healthy, whatever your age, avoid crowds (and bars and evenings of the house), wear a face mask, practice social distance, only manage essential races, Wash your hands regularly and cross this pandemic to your healthier, do not miss these37 places you are most likely to catch coronavirus.
