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Covid-19 spread fastest by teens and tweens: Study
Covid-19 within a household than younger children and adults, according to a new study of 5,706 coronavirus patients in South Korea.The researchers traced and tested nearly 60,000 people who had contact with the infected people and found that, on average, 11.8% of household contacts tested positive for Covid-19, according to the early release of a study published on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.For people who lived with patients between the ages of 10 and 19, 18.6% tested positive for the virus within about 10 days after the initial case was detected -- the highest rate of transmission among the groups studied.