Key Facts About COVID-19
- COVID-19 infection is spread by droplet transmission much like the flu. A virus may travel from person to person through respiratory fluids when they cough, breathe, speak, sing, sneeze etc.
Key Facts About COVID-19
- COVID-19 infection is spread by droplet transmission much like the flu. A virus may travel from person to person through respiratory fluids when they cough, breathe, speak, sing, sneeze etc. Masks and hand washing are important in stopping disease spread.
- Disease in children is often mild but can be severe in some, especially the immune-suppressed and chronically ill. Mildly infected children can infect others.
- Illness may be acute (short lived) or long, and there is still a lot to be learned about “Long Covid” in children. Even mild disease can have long term consequences for some.
What is COVID-19?
COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus. We are constantly learning about the virus and how it affects different aged individuals and how effective vaccines are. Will it someday be an infectious disease, we learn to live with like the flu or other corona viruses that cause the common cold?
When a disease circulates in the population year after year it is said to be endemic. It looks like COVID will evolve to become a milder endemic disease, but how long that will take is still guesswork. There is much we don’t know 