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Coronavirus y niños: ¿Qué se sabe de los efectos del covid-19 en los menores?

A child gets a haircut at a barber shop in Madrid, Spain, Monday, May 4, 2020. Spaniards will be able to get a haircut, buy glasses or take away food as long as they have previously made an appointment and they travel on public transport with mouth and nose covered with mandatory masks. The country enters the first stage of its 4-phase lockdown rollback helped by the lowest daily reports of coronavirus related deaths from coronavirus in 1.5 months. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A child gets a haircut at a barber shop in Madrid, Spain, Monday, May 4, 2020. Spaniards will be able to get a haircut, buy glasses or take away food as long as they have previously made an appointment and they travel on public transport with mouth and nose covered with mandatory masks. The country enters the first stage of its 4-phase lockdown rollback helped by the lowest daily reports of coronavirus related deaths from coronavirus in 1.5 months. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Bernat Armangue

Mientras algunos países empiezan a abrir las escuelas tras semanas de confinamiento, todavía pesan incertidumbres científicas sobre los efectos del coronavirus covid-19 en los niños y especialmente sobre su capacidad a transmitir la enfermedad.

“Hay tres cuestiones clave: el nivel de infección de los niños, la gravedad de quienes enferman y la transmisión. Pero solo para la segunda tenemos datos sólidos”, resume Russell Viner, presidente del Colegio Real de Pediatría Británica.

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