Of the 44,000 confirmed cases in and around Wuhan from mid-February, the 10-to-19 age bracket made up only 1% of infections. FMTNews FMTLifestyle
In a study from mid-February of 44,000 confirmed cases in and around the city of Wuhan the 10-to-19 age bracket made up only 1% of infections.
“We know children get infected with the virus, but they don’t appear to get very sick or die,” said Justin Lessler, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Children see so many illnesses in the first years of life that their immune systems are tuned up and respond nicely to novel infection,” commented Sharon Nachman, head of paediatric infectious disease at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital in New York state.
Some argue that locking children out of the classroom is not worth the social disruption caused, and that keeping kids at home may further expose older people to the disease. It could, for example, result in a reduction in the number of healthcare workers to care for the sick, and “an increase in grandparents delivering childcare — an age group at much greater risk,” he told AFP.“It helps to contain the spread of infection, but it creates a wider problem in society, like missing out on an education,” he said.
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