CDC Documents Children at Care Facilities Spreading Coronavirus – By Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder (US News) / Sept 11 2020
Two of three children who tested positive but were asymptomatic passed the virus on to someone else, according to the research.
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE Control and Prevention has documented incidents in which children who contracted COVID-19 from child care facilities have spread the virus, despite having mild to no symptoms.
The study looked at three COVID-19 outbreaks in child care facilities in Utah’s Salt Lake County from April through July. It found 12 children got the coronavirus from the facilities. They went on to infect 12 people outside of the facilities. One parent had to be hospitalized.
Two of three children who tested positive but were asymptomatic passed the virus on to someone else, according to the research.
Children at the facilities were not required to wear masks. The study suggested that mitigation strategies could have limited the spread in the facilities, but it also noted that some children who are too young to wear masks can still spread the virus, as was the case with an 8-month-old child who caught the virus and gave it to both parents.
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