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| Children wearing face masks leave their school at the end of the day in Xindian district, New Taipei City on 3 March. ( Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty) |
Children as susceptible as adults
- Children are just as likely to get infected with COVID-19 as adults. One of the most detailed studies yet published on the spread of the new coronavirus followed 391 people in Shenzhen, China, infected with the virus and 1,286 of their close contacts. The study could have important implications for slowing the spread of the virus through measures such as school closures. (Nature | (continuously updated)
- Mathematician Adam Kucharski explains, in simple terms, how relevant statistics are calculated for the outbreak. For example, the death rate is not a simple matter of dividing the total number of deaths and total number of cases, which doesn’t account for unreported cases or the delay from illness to death. “If 100 people arrive at hospital with COVID-19 on a given day, and all are currently still alive, it obviously doesn’t mean that the fatality rate is 0 percent,” explains Kucharski. (The New York Times | 8 min read)
- China is struggling to deal with the mountain of medical waste created by the outbreak. By 24 February, the volume of medical waste in Wuhan, the city in which the outbreak began last December, had quadrupled to more than 200 tonnes a day, according to Chinese media reports. The city’s only dedicated medical-waste disposal facility handle only 50 tonnes a day. (South China Morning Post | 10 min read)
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