Why would we think that children don't get infected and transmit SARS-COV-2? Given the challenge of conducting these studies and the potential for bias due to the differential social disruption of kids, challenges in finding asymptomatic infections, uncertainty in serology,..1/3 https://twitter.com/hsalje/status/1275707934429806594
Doesn't our strong prior that kids are infected and transmit endemic coronaviruses and every other respiratory virus efficiently lead us to require strong empirical, replicated observations to suggest anything different for this virus? 2/3
This work is important and others need to be done like it. But I believe stronger evidence will be needed before we shift from thinking a priori that kids can and will be infected by and transmit SARS-COV-2. 3/3
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