How to Make Sense of Cases Spiking Among Young Kids

New increases in cases seem to contradict previous knowledge

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
5 min readJul 7, 2020

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A lot of the early research on kids and the coronavirus was optimistic. While it suggested that kids could spread the virus, it also showed that they didn’t get infected too often, and when they did, their symptoms were mild. For a time, it seemed that parents could breathe a…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.