If your child is this age, they are more likely to get Covid, says CDC
A new CDC report shows the disparity between COVID cases for children of different ages.
TheDiscussion around children and coronaviruses has always evolved since the beginning of the pandemic. According to disease control and prevention centers (CDC),Fewer cases of coronaviruses have been reported among those 17 years old and younger than among those of age. However, as the number of adult infections has increased since March, the number has also increased in children - even on a smaller scale. And it turns out that some children can be more sensitive than others. According to a new CDC report,A child aged 12 to 17 is more likely to get Covid than younger children.
Since March, just over 277,000 cases of confirmed coronaviruses have been reported in school-aged children (5 to 17 years old). And when the CDC collected data from May to September, they found that the number of children aged 12 to 17 years.infected with coronavirus On an average weekly basis, it was twice as much as children aged 5 to 11, according to the report published on September 28th.
These data "suggest that young people could play an increasingly important role in the transmission of the community," wrote the researchers from the CDC to their study. The CDC also previously suggested thatChildren can play a greater role in the spread of coronavirus that previously thought when they published an August report based on aEvent Superspreader This took place in children at the spreading camp in Georgia in July.
And although other previous research suggested thatChildren are unlikely to be infected with coronavirusThe new CDC report shows that the age of a child can count. This is saved by a recentJama Pediatrics Study of September 25, in which researchers examined several studies around the world and concluded thatThe youngest children are about half as likely as adults Become infected with the virus. But they found that children over 14 can be as likely as adults to contract Covid-which does not meanall Children are as safe as the thought previously.
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"I think we need to consider the older teenage group over 15 years old, in adulthood, becausethey have similar social models, "MUGE CEVIK, MD, clinical academic comrades in infectious diseases at the University of St. Andrews, saidThe New York Times. "In addition, they potentially many larger networks, compared to adults."
This opportunity for "larger networks" is particularly embarrassing as much as the country has these older school children who come back to school, which has led older teenagers to be in high school classrooms orStart their trips on university campuses.
A Chinese study published inScience back can reach the conclusion thatChildren were only one third as susceptible to coronavirus like adults were. However, this was at a time when schools were online or not in session for the summer. Researchers in this study revealed that when schools were open, children actually had three times more contacts than adults, as well as three times more opportunities to become infected, which essentially stated the risk between children and Adults. And for more information on how your children could make coronaviruses, these areThe most likely ways that children can broadcast Covid to school, say experts.
