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Explainer Highlight: Kids and COVID
Here’s an explainer we think will be of interest to many of you: kids and COVID. We feel this may be particularly helpful given the ongoing discourse around re-opening schools. This piece takes you through all the basics: whether kids can contract and transmit the virus and how severe symptoms are in pediatric cases. We also walk through some preliminary studies on transmission specifically in schools.
And if you can’t read the whole thing (though we really recommend you do), here’s our shareable infographic summary:
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Can you share the data source for your comment that children under 1 are at slightly more risk of contracting severe illness from COVID-19? What percentage of infants are contracting severe illness? Where does this data come from?