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By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Children wait outside the school gate in Johannesburg, South Africa.KIM LUDBROOK/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 28 August Children are at “strikingly low” risk of getting severely ill from coronavirus Children are much…

Eleven children in Washington state have been diagnosed with a rare condition that is thought to have been triggered by COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.Four children were diagnosed with the rare disorder — known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) — in May, and seven have developed the illness since then.Not much is known about…

Share on PinterestResearch indicates that children under the age of 10 are not a major source of COVID-19.The impact of COVID-19 on children has been uncertain throughout the ongoing pandemic. While most relevant studies have found that children are less susceptible to the disease, others have suggested that they have a similar rate of infection…

While some research has shown that children are infected with the coronavirus at a lower rate than adults, a new Chicago-based study raises questions about the role children have in spread the virus. A study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital discovered that children younger than 5 years with mild to moderate COVID-19…

Children under five years of age may harbor up to 100 times as much of the coronavirus in their noses and throats as infected adults and older children, according to a study out of Chicago.“Our analyses suggest children younger than 5 years with mild to moderate COVID-19 have high amounts of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in…