Posted on 03/04/2020 12:45:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As the novel coronavirus spreads around the globe, sickening more than 90,000 people and killing about 3,000, doctors have noticed something curious: Very few children have been diagnosed with it. And of those who have, most have had mild cases.
In China, where the outbreak started, children comprise just 2.4 percent of all reported cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, a World Health Organization-China Joint Mission report from last month found. Of those, only a sliver — 2.5 percent — experienced severe symptoms, and an even tinier proportion — 0.2 percent — became critically ill. Worldwide, there have been no deaths reported so far in young children.
The coronavirus' mercy on children is a relief and a mystery to pediatric infectious diseases experts, who have a handful of working theories but no definitive answers for why.
"This is one of the unusual findings and curveballs that this virus keeps throwing at us," said Dr. Frank Esper, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Cleveland Clinic Children's, whose research focuses on viral respiratory infections and newly recognized infectious diseases. "Normal coronaviruses seem to affect children and adults equally, but this one, for whatever reason, certainly skews more to the adult population."
The answer may lie in the difference between children's and adult's immune systems, said Dr. Vanessa Raabe, an assistant professor in pediatric and adult infectious diseases at NYU Langone. As people age, their immune systems weaken, she said, potentially making it harder for them to fight off illnesses.
"We've seen similar patterns for other diseases — chickenpox, for example. Adults who get it tend to get much more severe cases than children," she said.
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Children have a whole lifetime of taxes still to pay, old people have outlived their usefulness..lol
You laugh, but culling a bunch of useless retirees from the ChiCom populace would solve a whole lotta problems for the regime.
Maybe one of their immunizations carries an unknown benefit for them.
It's gonna overlap in the DNA for the diseases.
Plus, I would think that such antibodies would be more concentrated in a 40 lb. body than a 170 lb. body.
Yet over 100 kids died this year of the flu..so the flu virus can kill kids but coronavirus doesn’t do them any harm. Im worried about them being carriers, they can have it, have zero symptoms, no fever, and still carry it and pass it around?
Vectors
Was somebody trying to make an immortality cure like in Star Trek Miri?!
I agree. It is soaring children because it was designed to do sp.
Yeah going by the article its like they are saying “Hey why aren’t the youngins dying too”
It’s sparing children because like all the other flu’s it kills 100-200 per year in the U.S. and tens of thousands of those over 65
... You laugh, but culling a bunch of useless retirees from the ChiCom populace would solve a whole lotta problems for the regime.
It would greatly help the deficits in Social Security and Medicare also
Culling useless elderly eaters
Spoken as an official old fart.
One thing for certain - especially in more “remote” places like Hubei Province China - nearly ALL men over the age of 40 are smokers. Filterless cigarettes are still popular among the older generation of these men also.
So a new respiratory virus on a life-long smoker who is 60 years old is going to have very outsized effects.
Chinese statistics have also shown that older men are having a much higher mortality.
Three children known to the NY attorney case were just tested positive.
The Grups?
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