Kids better armed for Covid-19 attack


By AGENCY

The upper respiratory tract immune cells in children tend to be on constant high alert, enabling them to rapidly fight off invading SARS-CoV-2 viruses, thus resulting in a milder infection. — TNS

We already knew early into the Covid-19 pandemic that children were mostly getting mild coronavirus infections.

But it’s taken until now for us to better understand why exactly this is the case.

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