With COVID-19 tearing across the globe, parents are understandably anxious. Consult this expert guide to living through the age of coronavirus with little ones at home.
, MD, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. However, three types of coronavirus can cause more severe illness. Those include MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and the novel form of coronavirus that’s making today’s news, COVID-19. This form of coronavirus was only recently found to infect people. Itin Wuhan, China, and to date has been detected in more than 100 locations around the globe.
Coronavirus is a highly contagious illness. “This virus is transmitted in a way that’s very similar to influenza or any of the seasonal common cold viruses,” says, MD, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and physician in chief at Connecticut Children’s. “Close exposure to someone who is coughing or has a runny nose will pose a risk of transmission. Touching surfaces with your hands and then touching your face, eyes or mouth with your hands can also transmit the virus.
COVID-19 can cause serious complications in adults, like pneumonia and even death, but so far this hasn’t happened in children. “Infants, children and young adults seem to be strikingly spared,” Schaffner says. “The best thought about this is perhaps that they do get the infection but this virus doesn’t make them as sick. There’s some precedent for that in measles and chicken pox, where the older you are when you get the infection, the more likely you’ll have a severe course of illness.
Like most respiratory viruses in children, a case of coronavirus could take between a week to 10 days to resolve, Salazar says. However, he adds, “it could be longer in children who are immunocompromised or have chronic medical conditions.”, you can likely keep them isolated at home. That means no school or daycare and no public space like playgrounds or public transportation. Don’t let them share food, drinking cups, utensils or bedding with others in your house.
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