- New research from Israel finds that children up to age 9 have little to do with the spread of the coronavirus.
- Experts say this means reopening summer camps and in-person classroom instruction is a good idea, and the findings should reassure educators.
- Experts are split on whether young children need to wear masks to stay safe.
Young children not only are at low risk for developing COVID-19 but also don’t play a significant role in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 while attending school, finds a study recently
According to researchers in Israel, children 10–19 years old had a three-fold higher risk of acquiring the coronavirus after returning to school than when they still were at home.
“It appears that young children 0–9 have shown not only in this study but observationally over the last year of the pandemic that this group has little to do with spread of COVID,” Theodore Strange, MD, interim chair of medicine at Staten Island University Hospital in New York, told Healthline.
Source: healthline