Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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SvennoJ said:

It would be nice if this turned out to be true
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/french-case-raises-questions-over-coronavirus-child-spread-1.4903652

A nine-year-old who contracted COVID-19 in eastern France did not pass the virus on to any other pupils at three ski-schools, according to new research that suggests infants are not large spreaders of the disease.

Through rapid intervention by health authorities, it was ascertained that the child, who only displayed mild symptoms, came into contact with 172 people while sick. All of those were placed in quarantine as a precaution, but none of them contracted COVID-19, not even the child's two siblings. By contrast, 64 per cent of those contacts tested positive for other seasonal illnesses such as flu. Authors of the study said that the case of the child could "suggest that children might not be an important source of transmissions of this novel virus."

An exception or maybe some hope? Of course what would be the safe age limit, and maybe her symptoms were simply too mild. Would it be the same for boys as for girls etc.

Would be great, but at least here one of the first outbreaks was in a private school with 6-10 year old kids. No new public info came out but I think just a kid caused something between 25 and 70 cases very quickly before the health ministry shut down the school