The coronavirus has claimed several hundred lives in middle-aged and older people, but children are practically immune to it.
The doctors thought that the greatest damage coronavirus will harm the health of young children and the elderly, but they were right on only one point.
During the coronavirus epidemic, experts recorded only a few hundred cases of infection in boys and girls. The complexity of diagnosis is due to the fact that the virus in children under 15 years of age is weak and resembles ARVI.
It is also important to know that children do not face life-threatening complications and recover quickly enough. For example, in Beijing, a ten-month-old girl carried the Chinese virus without consequences, and in Germany, a child who was infected from his father quickly fell ill with coronavirus.
What is the reason for this encouraging phenomenon for parents, doctors do not yet know. However, similar immunity among children was found during the epidemic of another deadly coronavirus, SARS. Then only 80 cases of infection of children were recorded, not a single child, fortunately, died.Recall
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