Coronavirus: How contagious are children and how sick can they get? | COVID-19 Special

Experts are divided as to how much of a risk coronavirus poses to kids. Or whether they are even able to spread the virus. It's also unclear why children either have no symptoms or very mild ones. So far, studies have come to varying conclusions. Are kids safe from the virus? Or are they at risk?

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[Hal]

Deutsche Welle are doing a terrific job during this crisis. I find myself watching them in preference to most other news sources.

[mollymolly]

The only problem with sending kids to school is that adult teachers, who can catch the virus more severely, need to be there with the children. 😒👎

[WonderMagician]

Children must be protected from COVID 19 infection until we know more. From all the reports that I have seen, I am left wondering if the vulnerabilities in our DNA/RNA determine the gravity of COVID 19 impact on our body.

[ralphbernhard]

Excellent information and explanations.
Thank you.

[interestingisitnot]

They have NO IMMUNITY period.
Do you ALL understand?

[dwnews]

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[barbara]

What about the warning from the UK, that a lot of children got seriously sick? And there are also children which belong to the risk group.

[NicMoreno]

Fiction...3 week old in the US died...

[monkeyman]

Kids can learn using the internet and can play videogames. Sending them outside is reckless.

[Eugensdiet]

Thank you for such an informing conversations. So you're a grandparent in Sweden, ha ha ha.

[sunbeam]

Some experts say A and some experts announce B while others firmly state it is C, D or E, some go for F, others for G and most observe that it could quite frankly be any one letter of the alphabet.

[stinkelstinkel]

Got absolutely nothing out of this story.
Sounds to me like the doctors don't know anyting.

[margueriteheirman]

Is this a test???? Children are not stronger than adults????
Children are the future, isn’t????

[badfairy]

ACE2 recepters in Red Blood Cells. Red feet and hands, Blood clots. In the young. Normal test does not work.

[su]

What is the take now? With the delta variant

[cj-bdql]

Definitely at risk if you have adults that's not getting the vaccination. But we do have breakthrough cases so what we going to do now.

[mrlawilliamsukwarmachine]

Kids always get ill. And they recover. Learn how to make kids more able to recover successfully.

[jessicaprintke]

We need to close our borders and focus on American people in America. We may be putting our own American children at risk by opening our borders to other children from other countries who are bringing in the virus who are showing severe symptoms of covid even while at the border

[trinigyul]

1 year later they can be vaccinated and might be forced to do so soon

[bargootabargoot]

Hhhh they wont stop lying...the slaves had a better life than we now