“Cases in children have been rare.”So, why aren’t more children getting sick? Scientists may not be seeing more infected children because “we don’t have data on the milder cases,” he said. Some scientists suspect that this is typical of coronavirus infection in children. Still, even though thousands of young children end up in the hospital each year with influenza, just a small percentage of them die, Peiris noted. Still, Dr Mark Denison, a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said he does not expect to see a sudden uptick in infected children.

Source: bd News24 February 06, 2020 17:15 UTC