No one is safe from coronavirus, especially children around five years old or younger. A new study finds they may carry 10 to 100 times more coronavirus compared to adults. According to NBC Chicago, the researchers involved in the study said, the capability of kids to spread the novel coronavirus may have been under-recognized.
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"But one takeaway from this is that we can't assume that just because kids aren't getting sick, or very sick, that they don't have the virus," added Ms. Taylor.
The doctors must take a standard nasopharyngeal swab to determine the viral load in patients. Once they extracted the samples, they will use a quantitive polymerase chain reaction or "qPCR."
It was explained that the samples acquired from the children mostly had lower CTs-- means that the younger participants carry more virus in their samples from the start. On the other hand, the CTs observed in the samples of adults and older children were more comparable.
"It definitely shows that kids do have levels of a virus similar to and maybe even higher than adults," explained Taylor.
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Written by: Giuliano de Leon.
