Urgent need to develop evidence-based COVID-19 recommendations for primary schools
(2021) Archives of Disease in Childhood — Vol. 106, n° 11, p. 1039-1040 (2021)
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Patel, Sanjay 
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- (en) Much has been learnt about the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 since December 2019. Children are not superspreaders of SARS-CoV-2. They appear to have far lower rates of infection and lower rates of transmission compared with adults, especially young children below 10–14 years of age. However, many of these data need to be interpreted with caution because they were collected early in the pandemic, when children had limited exposure to SARS-CoV-2 due to the introduction of national lockdowns and closure of schools. Encouragingly, more recent data collected following the reopening of schools in September suggest that rates of SARS-CoV-2 in children remain low compared with adults, even in areas with increasingly high prevalence. [...]
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Patel, S., Epalza Ibarrondo, C., Toubiana, J., & Van der Linden, D. (2021). Urgent need to develop evidence-based COVID-19 recommendations for primary schools. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 106(11), 1039-1040. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-321017 (Original work published 2021)