Those children who do fall ill often have underlying conditions. A study found all 10 pediatric patients who were hospitalized in Chicago in March and April with COVID-19 had either pre-existing conditions or co-infections.
The bottom line here is that children get sick and die from COVID-19 far less often than adults do, though that does not mean they are immune.It’s worth emphasizing that given that children are more prone to severe cases of flu, it wasn’t obvious at the start of the pandemic that children would be less susceptible to COVID-19.
There have now been several studies on the first part that do indeed seem to suggest children, especially younger children are infected less often. If children are major spreaders, then they could cause fresh outbreaks within their homes and communities — and unfortunately the evidence right now on this point is mixed.
On the one hand, spectacular clusters have erupted — for example at a summer camp in the U.S. state of Georgia where hundreds of unmasked children who slept together in large dorms were infected.
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