Thread by @DrEricDing

📍TODDLERS ARE “EFFECTIVE SPREADERS”—nursery school outbreak shows kids 1-2 are “effective spreaders”—despite “cohorting” in pods without teacher/student crossover; no parents entered building, masked <15min.

Kids➡️the vectors. Schools are hard. #COVID19 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27…

https://twitter.com/alinouriphd/status/1314687917055504388

2) “nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 levels are the highest in the youngest children (6).

Moreover, the airborne transmission route in the nursery rooms’ confined environment could have played an important role (7).”

3) “The high infection attack rate among children in our cluster could be explained by prolonged close contact between very young children, who are less able to adjust to control measures”

4) “most children in our study were asymptomatic, and this cluster would likely not have been detected without subsequent testing of persons who had direct contact with the index case-patient. We believe further studies are needed to clarify young children’s role in transmission”