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no. for this one, no reported infections in children 15yo or younger.
by igivanov 7y ago
no. for this one, no reported infections in children 15yo or younger.
- bart_spoon 7y agoIt absolutely has infected children, as young as 36 hours old. There hasn't, however, been any reports of children dying.
- igivanov 7y agotechnically you are probably correct though I was more replying to the parent's statement that it kills newborns >The outbreak was first reported on December 31, but no children younger than 15 years old had been diagnosed as of January 22. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine said at the time that "children might be less likely to become infected or, if infected, may show milder symptoms" than adults. >Since then, doctors have recorded a few one-off cases among children: a 9-month-old girl in Beijing, a child in Germany whose father was diagnosed with the virus first, and a child in Shenzhen, China, who was infected but displayed no symptoms. >On Wednesday, Chinese authorities confirmed that an infant in Wuhan, China, had tested positive for the virus 30 hours after being born; the baby's mother is a coronavirus patient. https://www.sciencealert.com/experts-are-puzzled-over-why-so-few-children-have-caught-coronavirus-so-far https://www.sciencealert.com/experts-are-puzzled-over-why-so...