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kpete

(71,981 posts) Mon Aug 3, 2020, 08:50 AM Aug 2020

Open the schools you say?

Young children have higher viral load among symptomatic #COVID19 cases. Not just a little higher but 10-100x higher in young kids under 5. We should be cautious.

(1/2) Study of viral load in symptomatic children and adults with #COVID19. Children aged 5-17 had similar viral load to adults, but young children (<5 years) had levels 10-100 times higher. May be high risk that symptomatic children will transmit virus.