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. 2020 Mar;119(3):670-673.
doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2020.02.009. Epub 2020 Mar 2.

SARS-CoV-2 infection in children: Transmission dynamics and clinical characteristics

Qing Cao  1 , Yi-Ching Chen  2 , Chyi-Liang Chen  3 , Cheng-Hsun Chiu  4
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SARS-CoV-2 infection in children: Transmission dynamics and clinical characteristics

Qing Cao et al. J Formos Med Assoc. 2020 Mar.
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Accumulated and daily new case numbers of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in children in China and the transmission dynamics. (A) Accumulated and daily new case numbers in China outside Hubei province between January 20 and February 10, 2020. Upper panel shows total case number of adults; lower panel the case number of children. (B) Transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children. During the emerging stage of the COVID-19, the infection starts from person-to-person transmission in the community, almost exclusively in adults. The virus further spreads to the family to cause intrafamilial transmission, especially to the elderly and children, who are vulnerable to the infection. Perinatal infection can occur if the baby is born to a pregnant woman with confirmed infection via vaginal delivery. If the disease further extends without being contained, the outbreak may go into the explosion stage, when the school transmission mixed with a wider community spread can occur. The children at that stage can become a main spreader of the virus. The red lines indicate the transmission route with confirmed evidence in the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in China, and the red dotted lines indicate the transmission route that may happen if the outbreak becomes more extensive afterwards.
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