Household COVID-19 transmission high, children a ‘significant source of spread’

SARS-CoV-2 spreads extensively in households, with children being a significant source of that spread, a Canadian study reported last week.
Study co-author Maala Bhatt, MD, MSc, FRCPC, is director of emergency medicine research at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), an investigator at the hospital’s research institute, and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Ottawa.
“Our study was conducted when we were dealing with a less transmissible virus and pandemic restrictions were strongly in place, and we still had a 50% transmission rate within households,”

SARS-CoV-2 spreads extensively in households, with children being a significant source of that spread, a Canadian study reported last week.
Study co-author Maala Bhatt, MD, MSc, FRCPC, is director of emergency medicine research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), an investigator at the hospital’s research institute, and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Ottawa.
“Our study was conducted when we were dealing with a less transmissible virus and pandemic restrictions were strongly in place, and we still had a 50% transmission rate within households,”