Ep. 106 - Are Children the Primary Spreaders of Covid?

The Vaccine Conversation with Melissa and Dr. Bob

Immunity Education Group

Health & Fitness

4.5 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Many policymakers assume that Covid-19 is largely spread by children, leading to nationwide school closures and hesitation about re-opening amid unfounded fears of kids being asymptomatic carriers. Today we break down research articles and expert opinions that show the opposite is true: while the Flu is readily spread by children, Covid-19 is not. The available data shows that children contribute very little to the spread of the virus, and schools can re-open without a “new normal.” bit.ly/vaxconv

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0:00.0	When you open the door for somebody else, welcome in to the vaccine conversation with
0:16.3	Melissa and Dr. Bob.
0:18.4	It is another early morning episode for us.
0:23.1	I'm excited to talk about this topic.
0:26.1	They are more awake now than they are.
0:28.2	Really?
0:30.2	I mean, yes.
0:31.2	I'm super awake.
0:32.2	Ready to go.
0:33.2	Well, this is a, I love this topic and this is a very fascinating topic.
0:39.2	The idea of do children spread coronavirus?
0:45.0	Are they largely responsible or even partly responsible for propagating this outbreak?
0:52.2	What role do they play in that?
0:53.8	And what does the actual research show on this?
0:58.0	Because they actually have some pretty good research on this.
1:00.8	And the basic conclusion is children are very minimally responsible for spreading COVID.
1:10.8	The amount of COVID that gets spread from child to child or from child to adults is so
1:16.1	minimal that it's only a tiny little fraction of the overall spread of this.
1:22.3	And we're going to go through the data with you guys that demonstrates that and I think
1:28.3	it's pretty fascinating.
1:30.2	I think so.
1:31.2	Do you want to, I do.
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