OK I& #39;m busy trying to catch up with what I& #39;ve missed on #COVID19 in children, which looks like a lot!

People seem to be making a big deal out of some new papers, but frankly there& #39;s not a huge amount of new information here - quick run down

1/13
This paper examines a big outbreak at an overnight camp in Georgia (USA) during a period of high community transmission

Lots of kids infected, including young children

2/13 #T1_down">https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6931e1.htm?s_cid=mm6931e1_w #T1_down">https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volu...
Over such a brief period of time, likely kids didn& #39;t actually have time to transmit to each other. Mainly got infected by staff

Good break down here by @DiseaseEcology (although I disagree with the take on household transmission studies!)

3/13 https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1289298074804711425?s=20">https://twitter.com/DiseaseEc...
Next an outbreak in a high school in Israel

We cannot tell direction of transmission, but to me this looks like too many cases too fast to all be spread between children; I imagine multiple sources of entry

Secondary schools do seem higher risk

5/13

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.29.2001352">https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/1...
We already known children have transmissible virus, so this isn& #39;t new information

It& #39;s nice that they targeted ONLY symptomatic individuals, so at least we have a consistent denominator

Shame we still don& #39;t know how many children are asymptomatic...

8/13
The next also by @mugecevik et al. on viral dynamics of #COVID19

Includes interesting findings on duration of viral shedding according to age (although kids data poor, might explain apparent reduced infectivity of children despite similar VL?)

12/13

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.25.20162107v2">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1...
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