What what Alasdair Munro believes: “Children almost certainly DO transmit COVID-19.” How a Daily Mail headline summarizes his paper: “Experts cannot find a single child under 10 who has passed on coronavirus to an adult.” Munro does say, “So where do we stand? We don’t know for sure but growing evidence suggests children are less susceptible to infection, have milder infection, and are infrequently responsible for household transmission.” See the paper to which he contributed. Regarding the misleading media reports, Munro adds, “Looks like many of the more reputable outlets have changed their headlines following some fairly extensive efforts from myself and the excellent media team at [the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health] yesterday.”
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