Reviews of public health information by the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools suggest children are less likely to be spreaders of COVID-19.
“Being in school is not the same as going to a grocery store, right, and so the same rules do not necessarily apply,” said Pernica. “What they do with their mask when they eat lunch or have a drink of water, whether or not they share their masks. There’s all this stuff that’s going to happen in reality that we don’t know yet.”
Pernica is “fascinated” with the question of why kids are spared the worst aspects of the disease, and says their reaction to it is in “stark contrast” with how they deal with other major respiratory viruses.“Most of these things, RSV , parainfluenza, adenoviruses, enterovirus, they go around like wildfire,” Pernica said. “For some reason, you know, these young kids get less sick and spread the less than 40-year-olds.
However, Dr. David Fisman, epidemiologist and professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, says we shouldn’t discount the effect of the disease on children as they are not totally immune to severe infections.now from COVID, and south of the border they’ve had a number of child deaths. I think they’re pushing 100 kid deaths in the U.S. in the face of a much bigger epidemic than we’ve had here,” Fisman said.
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