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Why kids are “great little vectors” for COVID-19

(AMA) Offering new revelations on the behavior of SARS-CoV-2, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study suggests that young children and people with obesity may be significant vectors of viral transmission in households. NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) enlisted scientists from Henry Ford Health and other groups to participate in the project, which focused on incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in households with children and the role of allergic diseases in infection and transmission.

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