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Children’s Risk From Virus Appears Low, Summary Finds
- High numbers of infected children remain asymptomatic
- Few newborns have been infected with virus and tend to recover
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Children contract the coronavirus less often and with less severity than the general population, and there’s limited evidence so far that children pass the disease to others in significant numbers, according to a new report.