A 360 ° turn on the role of children in the spread of the epidemic? It would seem to be the case. While they were singled out at the outset, the children were only "very small contaminators", according to a study carried out by Professor Robert Cohen, vice-president of the French Pediatric Society and relayed this Thursday by Le Parisien .
This study was conducted in Ile-de-France by 27 pediatricians from April 14 to May 12 on 605 children. Robert Cohen says that children under 15 are really not very contagious: "When we identify an infected person and we test his relatives, we realize that children are two to five times less carriers of viruses than adults. "
What explanations?
How to explain this result? The professor puts forward several hypotheses in Le Parisien: “They seem to have fewer receptors for the virus on their nasal mucous membranes. Children could also be more protected because they have already caught other coronaviruses: this is cross-immunity. It's like they've had training. More anecdotal, we wonder if their small size is not an asset: we do not receive their postilions in the face. "
For Robert Cohen, it is therefore necessary to accelerate the return to school while continuing to strengthen hand washing.
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