As we know the immune system in both children and adult is impaired. The question is that why the covid-virus infection is very rare in children compare to young and adult people
Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination, provide protection to children against COVID-19.
Article Does Early Childhood Vaccination Protect Against COVID-19?
I think the characteristics of the virus have not yet been understood enough to establish why
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Article Pathophysiology of COVID-19: Why Children Fare Better than Adults?
Article Are children less susceptible to COVID-19?
Children are more likely to have a mild or asymptomatic infection with COVID 19
Children are just as likely as adults to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 but are less likely to be symptomatic or develop severe symptoms.
Infants and neonates were more vulnerable to more severe COVID‐19 disease than older children, but morbidity and mortality were low.
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Covid-19 rates in children are "steadily increasing," says new CDC guidance
15 August, CNN
Health experts say children make up more than 7% of all coronavirus cases in the US -- while comprising about 22% of the country's population -- and the number and rate of child cases have been "steadily increasing" from March to July. The data was posted alongside updated guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for pediatricians that also includes what is known about the virus in children. "Recent evidence suggests that children likely have the same or higher viral loads in their nasopharynx compared with adults and that children can spread the virus effectively in households and camp settings," the guidance states. Transmission of the virus to and among children may have been reduced in spring and early summer due to mitigation measures like stay-at-home orders and school closures, the CDC says.
Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination, provide protection to children against COVID-19.
Article Does Early Childhood Vaccination Protect Against COVID-19?
Children are also infected by covid virus as adults but their exposure are less symptomatic and casualties are few.
Children are probably less exposed because they tend to stay at home whereas adults have to work and interact with others.
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