While the world continues to be troubled by COVID-19, South Korean epidemiologists have found that people were more likely to contract the new coronavirus from members of their own households than from contacts outside the home. By age group, the infection rate within the household was higher when the first confirmed cases were teenagers or people in their 60s and 70s. Children with COVID-19 were also more likely to be asymptomatic than adults, which made it harder to identify index cases within that group. “The difference in age group has no huge significance when it comes to contracting COVID-19. Children could be less likely to transmit the virus, but our data is not enough to confirm this hypothesis,” said Choe.

Source: dna July 23, 2020 02:26 UTC