A doctor who is on committees that advise the British government on its infectious disease response told members of parliament’s upper house there are signs children may not spread COVID-19 as much as adults
FILE PHOTO: A student walks inside a francophone primary school during its reopening in Jumet, as a small part of Belgian children head back to their schools with new rules and social distancing measures, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , in Jumet, Belgium, May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
“There are hints that children are less infectious but it is not certain,” Eggo, who sits on a panel that advises the British government about transmission of COVID-19 among children and within schools, told the science committee of the House of Lords, the second chamber of Britain’s parliament. John Edmunds, a member of Britain’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies , told the same science committee hearing that it was striking how children did not seem to play much of a role in spreading the novel coronavirus.
He said that, more broadly, the evidence of transmission from asymptomatic individuals - which may be about 30 or 40 percent of adults - was not clear.
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