According to the study, children did not get infected more often in daycare emergency care. (picture alliance / dpa / Sebastian Kahnert)
According to a study from Baden-Württemberg, children are less likely to contract the corona-virus than their parents.
For the study of the university clinics in Heidelberg, Ulm, Freiburg and Tübingen, almost 5,000 people from Baden-Württemberg were tested for the virus and antibodies against it without corona symptoms and without previous corona detection. There were around 2,500 children under the age of ten and one parent each of whom had volunteered. A current infection with the coronavirus could only be found in one parent-child pair. 64 of those tested had formed antibodies and had gone through a corona infection largely unnoticed. Among them were 45 adults and 19 children.
Children should therefore not be seen as drivers of the wave of infections, concluded Klaus-Michael Debatin, medical director of the children's clinic at the Ulm University Hospital, from the results of the investigation. The study also shows that children who were in emergency care during the lockdown phase did not become infected more often than other children, explained Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Head of Virology at Heidelberg University Hospital. He emphasized that the study did not specifically investigate how infectious children are. In addition, one could not make a basic statement about who infected whom with the tested positive parent-child pairs.
The study was financed by the state of Baden-Württemberg, among others, and has not yet been published in a specialist journal.
Children should therefore not be seen as drivers of the wave of infections, concluded Klaus-Michael Debatin, medical director of the children's clinic at the Ulm University Hospital, from the results of the investigation. The study also shows that children who were in emergency care during the lockdown phase did not become infected more often than other children, explained Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Head of Virology at Heidelberg University Hospital. He emphasized that the study did not specifically investigate how infectious children are. In addition, one could not make a basic statement about who infected whom with the tested positive parent-child pairs.
The study was financed by the state of Baden-Württemberg, among others, and has not yet been published in a specialist journal.
