Thread by @DrEricDing

📍KIDS SILENT CARRIERS—Children can carry the coronavirus in their noses and throats for weeks even if they don't show any symptoms. "inapparent (asymptomatic) infections in children associated with silent #COVID19 transmission in the community”. Not good. cnn.com/2020/08/28/hea…

2) “Interestingly, this study aligns with adult data in which up to 40% of adults may remain asymptomatic in the face of infection”.

3) "In this study, the authors estimate that 85 infected children (93%) would have been missed using a testing strategy focused on testing of symptomatic patients alone”

➡️ this demolishes new Trump WH-forced CDC guidelines to not test for asymptomatic cases. Dangerous. #COVID19

4) “The study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics on Friday, included data on 91 asymptomatic, presymptomatic and symptomatic children diagnosed with Covid-19 between February 18 and March 31 at 22 centers throughout South Korea.

5) “Among those patients, 20 of them -- or 22% -- did not show any obvious symptoms and remained asymptomatic throughout the study.
Another 18 children -- or 20% -- were presymptomatic, meaning they didn't look or feel sick at the time but eventually got symptoms later.

6) “In total, more than half of the children -- 71 kids or 78% -- did show symptoms, which included fever, cough, diarrhea, abdominal pain and loss of smell or taste, among other symptoms. The duration of the symptoms appeared to vary, ranging from one to 36 days.

7) “This suggests that even mild and moderately affected children remain symptomatic for long periods of time”

➡️ herein lies the problem again. Asymptomatic cases (including pre symptomatic) are serious reasons why we need to do widespread testing & faster daily tests. #COVID19