SCIENTISTS CALL ON WHO TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE ON INDOOR HUMIDITY IN CORONAVIRUS BATTLEAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 2 percent of confirmed COVID-19 cases involve persons under age 18. In China, 2.2 percent of cases involved persons younger than 19, and in Italy, 1.2 percent of confirmed cases were among children under 18. “Is this because children are resistant to infection with SARS-CoV-2, or because they are infected but do not develop symptoms? Additional blood samples will need to be collected at two weeks, 18 weeks and 24 weeks into the study period, which will eventually be analyzed for the presence of antibodies. “These data provide real-time guidance in a setting of limited test availability, but they don’t enable us to understand the full extent of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the entire population.

Source: Fox News May 04, 2020 18:33 UTC