Children do infect adults

[cantory]

In a paper, published in the British journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the researchers said: 'Notably, the rate of infection in children younger than 10 years (7.4 per cent) was similar to the population average (6.6 per cent).
There was no significant association between the probability of infection and age of the index case.'

This meant that children were as likely as adults to both catch the virus and to spread it.

The researchers added: 'Analyses of how cases are detected, and use of data on individuals exposed but not infected, indicate that infection rates in young children are not lower than the population average (even if rates of clinical disease are).'

@timeisnotaline There have been outbreaks of covid 19 at two childcare centres in Australia.

www.skynews.com.au/details/_6152985579001

And in Australia there have only been 6783 confirmed cases and 93 deaths. That is the level of deaths we are having in some 24 hour periods, so it really is not comparable to the UK.

But it is clear that children attending childcare in Australia have had covid 19. With a total of 93 deaths across the whole country this may not have led to any deaths. But that would not be surprising as with such a small number of deaths those most at risk will be those nursing and caring for very ill covid 19 patients.

@cantory I can see the headline says outbreak, but I guess the reporter wasn’t worried about accuracy. Both of the incidents mentioned are a single case. A single case is not an outbreak.

Do you not read any articles you post OP? One child at each childcare centre isn’t an outbreak. It’s too early to tell whether they have infected anyone there, because it only happened a few days ago.