Kids May Be the Hidden Carriers of COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, affects those it infects in widely varied ways. Its symptoms of fever, coughing, and fatigue can be so mild that a person can go about their daily routine normally, or so severe that they develop into pneumonia, which is the path that is leading to the disease's fatalities. But it is the former group -- and those who are infected but show no symptoms at all -- that have allowed the disease to spread so widely. There have now been over 92,000 confirmed cases worldwide according to data tracked by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering.

A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention hypothesizes that children, who are rarely being diagnosed with the illness -- perhaps because they don't exhibit as intense symptoms as adults -- may be the secret caries of the disease, according to an article in The New York Post.

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