COVID-19 is More Likely to Spread at Home, Research Says
A mother and her daughter prepare a mud pool during the Online Boryeong Mud Festival at their home during a live streaming event, in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
South Korean epidemiologists recently announced they found that people were more likely to contract COVID-19 from within their own families compared to their connections outside their home.
Specifically, a study which the US Center for Disease and Control Prevention published on July 16 studied in detail at more than 5,700 index patients who had tested positive for COVID-19, and over 59,000 individuals who they got in contact with.
Such results presented that two in every 100 infected individuals had acquired the virus from contacts beyond or outside their household.
Meanwhile, one in every ten individuals, according to the said study, had been infected with the virus, and they got such a contagion from their own households.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Age
By age range, the rate of infection within the family was reported and recorded higher when the first verified confirmed cases were teens or those in their 60s and 70s.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Jeong Eun-kyeong said this is perhaps, "because the said age groups are more possibly to be in close contact with members of the family". Jeong is also one of the authors of the said study.
Meanwhile, children who are nine years old and younger could be the index patient. This was according to Hallym University College of Medicine assistant professor, Dr. Choe Young-june.
Choe, the co-leader of the study, said that the sample size of 29 was smaller than the 20 to 29-year-old individuals that totaled 1,695 who also got evaluated in the study.
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Children More Asymptomatic than Adults
The study also had it that children who had COVID-19 were more possibly to be asymptomatic compared to adults.
Meaning, researchers said it would be much more challenging to determine index cases within that particular group.
Choe also explained that the variation in age group does not have a considerable significance in terms of getting infected with COVID-19,
The study indicated that children could less possibly transfer the virus; however, their data was not adequate to validate such a hypothesis.
Specifically, research data was gathered from January 20 to March 27, when COVID-19 was exponentially spreading, and as daily contagious in South Korea had reached their peak.
As of this writing, 45 new contagions have been reported by the KCDC, resulting in the total number of cases with nearly 14,000 confirmed cases and almost 300 deaths.
COVID-19 in Young Adults
Aside from front the possible spread of COVID-19 at home, reports also came out in the middle of this month that the virus can be transmitted among young adults.
At first, young individuals are believed to be protected from the appearance of COVID-19. Nevertheless, health reports indicated, they are typically encountering unusual prodromes of the fatal illness like neuropathies.
Last week, health news sites also reported, researchers and medical experts presently assessing COVID-19 are still trying to determine what's making some individuals feel sick. In contrast, the others encounter fare less severe contagion.
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