"In this case series study, inapparent infections in children may have been associated with silent COVID-19 transmission in the community," the researchers wrote in a new study. Among those patients, 20 of them -- or 22% -- did not show any obvious symptoms and remained asymptomatic throughout the study. "This suggests that even mild and moderately affected children remain symptomatic for long periods of time," DeBiasi and Delaney wrote in the editorial. Most -- 66.2% -- of the patients with symptoms had symptoms that were not recognized before they were diagnosed, and 25.4% developed symptoms after they were diagnosed. Virus remained in respiratory tractThe study found genetic material from the virus was detectable in the children for a mean of 17.6 days overall.

Source: CNN August 28, 2020 21:33 UTC