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And with a respiratory infection, if you're not as severely affected - so you're not coughing and sneezing - you won't infect other people as much. "So we know that the average transmission rate for a child will be lower than the average for an adult," he said."But is the average child 10 times less transmissible? Half as transmissible? We don’t know the answer to that and that’s quite a big difference."
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