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Children Infected Less Care Crosses Borders
According to the CDC, the vast majority of German hospitals with spare capacity
infections so far have afflicted adults. And welcomed coronavirus patients from Italy,
when kids are infected, they tend to have where an overwhelmed health care system has
milder disease. For kids and their parents, seen the pandemic kill more people than in
that’s good news. However, it’s important to any other country.
note that children can develop infection. A As the border between Germany and Italy are
recent study from China early in the outbreak closed, patients are being transported by each
demonstrated that a small number of kids, country’s air force. The Italian plane only had
especially infants and toddlers, can develop space for two ventilated patients, but Germany
serious infection. has provided an airbus that can transport six a
As is true generally, it’s likely that kids can day.
spread infection in the absence of symptoms, “This shows that friendship and solidarity
though how often this happens is unclear. It’s knows no borders.”
perplexing, though fortunate, that this new
coronavirus does not behave the way so many
other illnesses do, in which the elderly and the
young are particularly vulnerable.
