'We know children get infected with the virus, but they don't appear to get very sick or die.'
But that doesn't mean infants, toddlers and teens are not carriers for the new coronavirus, which jumped from animals to humans in central China at the end of last year.Experts estimate that the true number of infections -- many with mild or no symptoms -- is far higher.
"What we don't know is how much these asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic kids transmit," he told AFP."This is key to understanding their role in the epidemic." "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.
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