At this time, Corona is wreaking havoc in front of the whole world, whose infection is not taking the name of stopping. Corona cases have reached 29 lakhs in the country. Therefore, to prevent this, the scientific community and research groups are constantly doing much research related to it. According to this, research has emerged that children are becoming silent spreaders of corona and increasing the infection of corona without symptoms.
According to the World Health Organization, the direct effect of corona on child mortality appears to be "very limited" according to available evidence. Reports surfacing also suggest that children may be less vulnerable to coronavirus than adults, but those who are infected have a higher viral load than adults. According to a recent US study, children can be silent spreaders of highly contagious infections.
What study says
In a study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass General Hospital, it was found that 49 out of 192 children were found to have a novel coronavirus test positive and had higher levels of viral load in their airways than adults, especially then, When he was admitted to the hospital's intern care unit. The studies have been published in the Journal of Pediatrics.
The research was done on children who were either suspected of having corona or found corona symptoms. According to a report published in USA Today, these children were aged between birth to 22 years old and some of them had no signs of coronavirus inside but were exposed to a positive case of corona when they were brought to the hospital Were.
The lead author of the study and practice conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass General, Dr. Lahl Yonkar, states that higher levels of viral load were found in children than in hospitalized adults. He said that we were surprised by the high levels of the virus in children of all ages, especially in the first two days of infection.
Yonker said, "I wasn't expecting the viral load to be so high. You think of a hospital, and all the precautions are taken for the treatment of seriously ill adults, but the viral load of these hospitalized patients is much lower than that of a 'healthy baby' Moving around with high SARS-CoV-2 viral load. "
What did the study reveal
The study's senior author, Dr. According to Alessio Fasano, "We should not discount children as a possible spread for this virus." Researchers also found that of the 49 children who were found to be corona positive, only half of them had excess body temperature.
The authors of the research believe that understanding that children can be silent carriers of the disease is important in combating the spread of novel coronaviruses. This should also be taken into consideration when opening schools, daycare centers, and other educational institutions as this may trigger another wave of coronavirus epidemics. Since they are symptomatic carriers without the disease, they can spread the infection to multiple homes simultaneously.