Household Transmission of #SARS-CoV-2 from Children and Adolescents | NEJM
▻https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2031915
(Étude prolongeant la suivante :
Coronavirus : des centaines d’enfants américains infectés en colonie de vacances
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Les #enfants sont bien contagieux
This retrospective study showed that the efficient transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from school-age children and adolescents to household members led to the hospitalization of adults with secondary cases of Covid-19. In households in which transmission occurred, half the household contacts were infected. The secondary attack rates in this study were probably underestimates because test results were reported by the patients themselves and testing was voluntary. In addition, a third of the index patients returned home from camp after the onset of symptoms, when they were presumably not as infectious as they were before and during the onset of symptoms,5 and two thirds adopted physical distancing because of a known exposure at camp; both of these factors probably reduced the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the household. When feasible, children and adolescents with a known exposure to SARS-CoV-2 or a diagnosis of #Covid-19 should remain at home and maintain physical distance from household members.
