Research Published on Children and COVID-19 Rates
May 5, 2021
What’s a silent COVID-19 infection? Otherwise known as an asymptomatic case, it means that the person is infected without showing symptoms, explains verywellhealth.com.
A May 3 Verywell Health post discusses a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open that used simulation modeling to assess the impact of these silent cases – and how vaccination might figure into the equation.
Clinical trials are being conducted for vaccines for young children. Richard Watkins, M.D., an infectious disease physician and a professor of internal medicine, told Verywell that when it’s available, vaccination for younger children “needs to be strongly encouraged.”