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A report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that children ages 5-11 are much less contagious and contagious than children ages 12-17.


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Teens contract Corona twice as much as younger children

A report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that children ages 5-11 are much less contagious and contagious than children ages 12-17.

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In the video: Prime Minister Netanyahu refers to the closure and says that mistakes were made that led to an increase in morbidity (Editing: Shaul Adam)

Many parents of young children are pulling hair at home in these very moments in an attempt to juggle between work and zoom and the feeding plant they run every day, waiting for the moment when schools and kindergartens will open.

Now, a new analysis published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States found an interesting statistic shows that teens are infected with COVID-19 at a rate almost double that for younger children. These findings have significance for the opening of the education system in Israel.



The analysis reviewed 277,285 cases Corona virus in children aged 5 to 17 who were diagnosed with the virus between March and September The researchers found that young people aged 12 to 17 infected almost twice as many children aged 5 to 11. Children with background illnesses were at higher risk of developing a serious illness, the report said. The data also found that 58 percent of children with COVID-19 had at least one symptom of the virus, but only 5 percent had no symptoms at all.

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"It is important that schools and communities monitor a number of COVID-19 indicators among school-age children and COVID-19 disease reduction strategies among students, teachers, school staff and families," the report said. "These results can provide a basis for monitoring trends and evaluating strategies. To reduce infection. "

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These findings raise a big question: Why is there an age difference?

There are probably several reasons behind it, "Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior researcher at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security, told the Yahoo website. One is the behavior of older children." The virus is everywhere.

It's just that teenagers have more social connections and more activities, and they are more likely to come into contact with them. "

Have more branching social connections.

Teens participate in a protest event (Photo: Reuven Castro)

While it is possible for teens to be infected with the virus at higher rates than younger children, it is likely that young children are also simply not being infected as much, Adalja says.

Most children infected with COVID-19 suffer from mild or no symptoms at all, and this changes as the children get older, Adalja says.

"The older you get, the more likely you are to have symptoms," he says.



Even if a young child has a suspicion of a case of a virus, Adalja says they are often less likely to be tested, simply because it is difficult to get them to cooperate.

"It's hard enough to look into a child's ear, let alone push something into their nose," he says.



It is important to remember that at the moment these are mostly speculations, especially when new research comes out every day, but these are important speculations that can determine whether schools and kindergartens will reopen, and up to what ages?

Children up to the age of 10 are not the driving force behind the epidemic in Israel.

Teacher and student in the classroom (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Only yesterday, a study was published by a team of researchers from the School of Public Health at the Hebrew University, which determined that children up to the age of 10 are not the cause of the epidemic in Israel.

According to the researchers, the first step in leaving the quarantine should include reopening the education system until the age of 10 in the form of permanent capsules that includes the teaching staff.



The published report states that the risk of closing the education system to children under the age of 10 is greater than when it is opened


and that there is a direct link between the child's age and the chance of infection, especially symptomatic infection.

According to the report's editors, many studies indicate that children under the age of 10 are infected at a lower rate (about half) than older children.

In addition, children under the age of 10 are probably also less contagious than older children.



The researchers note that during the period when the first and third grades were operating and during the period when the "School of the Great Freedom" was operating in capsules, while adhering to the rules of social distance, no increase in morbidity was observed in Israel.

According to the researchers, in educational settings there were few cases of infection from children to teachers, and usually the direction of infection was reversed.

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