Authors
Burkhard Tönshoff, Barbara Müller, Roland Elling, Hanna Renk, Peter Meissner, Hartmut Hengel, Sven F Garbade, Meinhard Kieser, Kathrin Jeltsch, Jürgen Grulich-Henn, Julia Euler, Maximilian Stich, Kristine Chobanyan-Jürgens, Maria Zernickel, Aleš Janda, Lena Wölfle, Thomas Stamminger, Thomas Iftner, Tina Ganzenmueller, Christian Schmitt, Tessa Görne, Vibor Laketa, Sylvia Olberg, Anna Plaszczyca, Mirko Cortese, Ralf Bartenschlager, Constantin Pape, Roman Remme, Daniela Huzly, Marcus Panning, Sebastian Weigang, Sebastian Giese, Kevin Ciminski, Jakob Ankerhold, Georg Kochs, Martin Schwemmle, Rupert Handgretinger, Charlotte M Niemeyer, Corinna Engel, Winfried V Kern, Georg Friedrich Hoffmann, Axel R Franz, Philipp Henneke, Klaus-Michael Debatin, Hans-Georg Kräusslich
Publication date
2021/6/1
Journal
JAMA pediatrics
Volume
175
Issue
6
Pages
586-593
Publisher
American Medical Association
Description
Importance
School and daycare closures were enforced as measures to confine the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, based on the assumption that young children may play a key role in severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread. Given the grave consequences of contact restrictions for children, a better understanding of their contribution to the COVID-19 pandemic is of great importance.
Objective
To describe the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections and the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in children aged 1 to 10 years, compared with a corresponding parent of each child, in a population-based sample.
Design, Setting, and Participants
This large-scale, multicenter, cross-sectional investigation (the COVID-19 BaWü study) enrolled children aged 1 to 10 years and a corresponding parent between April 22 and May 15, 2020, in southwest Germany.
Exposures
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