{"id":5139,"date":"2024-03-26T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2024-03-26T19:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T23:56:44","slug":"study-kids-with-covid-but-no-symptoms-play-key-role-in-household-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-kids-with-covid-but-no-symptoms-play-key-role-in-household-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Kids with COVID but no symptoms play key role in household spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciae069\/7634443\" rel=\"noopener\">A study today<\/a> in <em>Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/em> conducted across 12 tertiary care pediatric hospitals in Canada and the United States shows that asymptomatic children with COVID-19, especially preschoolers, contribute significantly to household transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers discovered that 10.6% of exposed household contacts developed symptomatic illness within 14&nbsp;days of exposure to asymptomatic test-positive children, a rate higher than expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe determined that the risk of developing symptomatic illness within 14&nbsp;days was 5&nbsp;times greater among household contacts of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2\u2013positive children,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n<p>They also found that 6 of 77 asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2\u2013infected children during a 3-month follow-up developed long COVID, or 7.8% of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciae069\/7634443\" rel=\"noopener\">A study today<\/a> in <em>Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/em> conducted across 12 tertiary care pediatric hospitals in Canada and the United States shows that asymptomatic children with COVID-19, especially preschoolers, contribute significantly to household transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers discovered that 10.6% of exposed household contacts developed symptomatic illness within 14&nbsp;days of exposure to asymptomatic test-positive children, a rate higher than expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe determined that the risk of developing symptomatic illness within 14&nbsp;days was 5&nbsp;times greater among household contacts of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2\u2013positive children,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n<p>They also found that 6 of 77 asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2\u2013infected children during a 3-month follow-up developed long COVID, or 7.8% of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-kids-with-covid-but-no-symptoms-play-key-role-in-household-spread\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: Kids with COVID but no symptoms play key role in household spread<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[987,26,18,11,868,8,14],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asymptomatic-infections","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-pediatric-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}