Är det de här avsnitten från WHO:s senaste rapport från Kina som ligger till grund för att Folkhälsomyndigheten anser att barn inte kan sprida smitta?
I så fall så gamblar Folkhälsomyndigheten väldigt högt med riskerna för snabb spridning när de kategoriskt säger att barn inte kan smitta.
Enligt denna artikel, (ej peer rewieved som så många andra som postas under ett snabbt händelseförlopp) så kan barn och unga dra på sig infektionen och vara smittbärare, de får ofta ett asymtomatiskt sjukdomsförlopp (något som Folkhälsomyndigheten också tidigare förnekat).
Citat:
The remaining seven (29.2%) cases showed normal CT image and had no symptoms during hospitalization. These seven cases were younger (median age: 14.0 years; P = 0.012) than the rest. None of the 24 cases developed severe COVID-19 pneumonia or died. The median communicable period, defined as the interval from the first day of positive nucleic acid tests to the first day of continuous negative tests, was 9.5 days (up to 21 days among the 24 asymptomatic cases).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025619v2
Ursprungligen länkad av Hanif Bali på Twitter.
https://twitter.com/hanifbali/status/1234046052996730881
WHO skriver:
Mina fetningar.
Sid 11:
Citat:
Children
Data on individuals aged 18 years old and under suggest that there is a relatively low attack
rate in this age group (2.4% of all reported cases). Within Wuhan, among testing of ILI
samples, no children were positive in November and December of 2019 and in the first two
weeks of January 2020. From available data, and in the absence of results from serologic
studies, it is not possible to determinethe extent of infection among children, what role
children play in transmission, whether children are less susceptible or if they present
differently clinically (i.e. generally milder presentations). The Joint Mission learned that
infected children have largely been identified through contact tracing in households of
adults. Of note, people interviewed by the Joint Mission Team could not recall episodes in
which transmission occurred from a child to an adult.
och sid 18:
Citat:
COVID-19 is not SARS and it is not influenza. It is a new virus with its own
characteristics. For example, COVID-19 transmission in children appears to be limited
compared with influenza, while the clinical picture differs from SARS. Such differences,
while based on limited data, may be playing a role in the apparent efficacy of rigorously
applied non-pharmaceutical, public health measures to interrupt chains of human-to-
human transmission in a range of settings in China.
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf
