Urgent need to develop evidence-based COVID-19 recommendations for primary schools

alkiviadis.1961 shared this article with you from Inoreader Urgent need to develop evidence-based COVID-19 recommendations for primary schools Via ADC Online First Much has been learnt about the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 since December 2019. Children are not superspreaders of SARS-CoV-2.1 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.2–4 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 sch ools. 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 (figure 1). Schools in most countries across Europe were closed in March 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is now recognised that the negative impact on... View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.