New research suggests that children play a bigger role in spreading COVID-19 than first thought.
Children or teens were the source of SARS-CoV-2 in about one in 13 Ontario households between June and December 2020, the study shows. Researchers from Public Health Ontario analyzed health records from 6,280 households with a pediatric COVID-19 case and a subset of 1,717 households in which a child up to age 17 was the source of transmission in a household.
The role of young children in transmission seemed logical to some experts who have been tracking the evolution of the
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