Young kids with COVID-19 often have no symptoms at all, even when they have a high amount of the virus in them, according to a new study.
-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, had no symptoms of the disease, versus 37% of children up to age 4, the researchers found.
The study also stands out for its focus on young children, Karron said. All households that took part in the study had at least one child up to 4 years old, with 256 out of the 690 people in this youngest age group. The other people in the study were 100 children ages 5 to 17 and 334 adults ages 18 to 74 .By the end of the study, 51 people had tested positive for the, including 14 who had no symptoms.
Karron says these findings should help parents and others make better decisions. She says that even if young children don’t have symptoms, they should be tested for COVID-19 if they have been exposed to others with the disease. And she recommends acting on the results. He notes that recent FDA guidance for COVID-19 testing calls for three negative at-home antigen tests – which detect proteins, called antigens, from the virus that causes COVID-19 – to confirm lack of disease.
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