Utah Study: Children transmit the coronavirus, but don't get sick themselves - AOL

WASHINGTON — Children can transmit the coronavirus, a new study of childcare centers in Utah conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows, but they do not get sick themselves.

The new findings, released Friday, bolster previous research on childhood infections, and come from extensive contract tracing at three daycare centers in Salt Lake City between April 1 and July 10. Those findings could help shape the intense debate about how to reopen schools safely as the coronavirus continues to sicken thousands and kill hundreds daily.

President Trump has called for schools to reopen for in-person instruction, pointing to studies that seem to show that children do not become sick from the coronavirus.

The average age of the children at the three childcare centers was 7.

Earlier studies have found that children younger than 10 appear to become sick and spread the virus less often than their older counterparts.

Those children spread the virus to at least 12 people outside the childcare center environment.

Another of the three asymptomatic children also transmitted the virus.

Notably, 71 percent of the cases remained confined to the adults and children within the three childcare centers.

But only two of the centers required adults to wear masks.

The third — referred to as “Facility C” in the report — was by far the largest of the three, and required masks of neither children nor adults?