Politically charged question "Living with children 0-11 years old was not associated with increased risks of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 related hospital or ICU admission," research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford, based on data from more than nine million adults, concluded.For children aged 12 to 18, there was a risk, but it remained small, the study found.Children "can transmit it to others," said Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist at the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program. "Although, that seems to occur less often than transmission does among adults."Younger children, she added, appear to transmit it less to each other than teenagers, where infection.