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Older Kids May Transmit COVID-19 as Much as Adults Do, New Evidence Shows – ScienceAlert

Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists and health authorities have often observed that children do not appear to contract and transmit the virus to the same extent as adults.

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Since the early days of the coronaviruspandemic, scientists and health authorities have often observed that children do not appear to contract and transmit the virus to the same extent as adults.
While the mechanisms behind this reduced vulnerability have remained somewhat mysterious and speculative, new evidence from South Korea shows that the age of children is also a vital factor to consider, with a large study indicating that older children seem to spread coronavirus on par with adults, eve…

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