If you find out, let the medical expert know — they're puzzled.
, only 2.4 percent of all reported cases of COVID-19 in China have been children. And of that, only 2.5 percent experienced any of the severe symptoms associated with the illness. Plus, only a minuscule 0.2 percent became critically ill due to the coronavirus.Naturally, pediatric health experts do have a few working theories as to why there’s a discrepancy in cases between children and adults.
Explained Dr. Buddy Creech, an associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, “Children’s immune systems are used to being assaulted constantly, so it’s to their benefit to coordinate and regulate their response. At the end of the day, if [their immune systems] freaked out about every single virus every time, they would be in the ICU. Instead, kids are really good at making good, fast immune responses.
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