Kids and the Coronavirus: What Everyone Wants to Know

Emerging information, and lots more to come

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it is launching a study to better understand coronavirus infections and children. The study — called Human Epidemiology and Response to SARS-CoV-2 (HEROS) — will try to determine what percentage of U.S. kids have been infected by the novel coronavirus, and whether rates of infection are different among kids who have other conditions like asthma or allergies.