Why The Covid-19 Pandemic Still Poses Significant Risks For Children

Forbes – Barry R. Bloom

One of the most hopeful aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been that children have mostly been spared the most serious outcomes of the disease.  In terms of hospitalized cases and deaths, children and teenagers under 20 years-old represent fewer than 2% of cases.  We now know that children are infected in households at the same rate as adults and it has been somewhat of a mystery why they appear to be resistant to the serious consequences of Sars-CoV-2 infection.   

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