Nature Medicine, researchers might be gaining a better understanding of why an infected person would become seriously ill.As Dr.
Francis Collins wrote in a blog post for the National Institute of Health, it comes down to the type of antibody response the person produces.The type of antibody response produced by an adult with mild COVID-19 is remarkably similar to the type produced by kids with mild infections, the study showed.
The difference comes into play when examining severe cases in adults and complications in minors.RELATED: Children may be at risk for inflammatory syndrome linked to COVIDA small percentage of infected kids develop a delayed complication called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).