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Health: Infants Less Prone To Develop Severe COVID-19 Symptoms Than Their Mothers

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Washington [US]: According to a study, children whose mothers test positive for COVID-19 have lower severe symptoms than their parents, if they become infected with the virus at all.
In one of the first studies to explore how COVID-19 specifically affects older infants, researchers from the University of Washington and at institutions at four other locations in the Western and Southern U.S. found that the number of infected people in a household was the factor most closely linked with the infant's likelihood of being infected.

Read also: COVID Still International Health Emergency, Says WHO

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