A group of scientists from Princeton Environmental Institute, UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University have come to the conclusion that children and young people are the main carriers of the coronavirus. The results of the study were published in the journal Science.
Having studied the situation with coronavirus infection in India, experts found that about 70 percent of patients with COVID-19 did not infect anyone, while only eight percent provoked more than half of new infections. An analysis of the data of 500 thousand patients from the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh showed that children and young people most often became carriers of the disease.
“In general, among all age groups, the chances of catching the disease from peers are the highest,” the scientists noted. After analyzing mortality rates, they also found that, on average, COVID-19 patients in India died eight days after hospitalization, while in the United States, patients died after 13 days.
The press service of Princeton University stressed that so far in the world there have been no such large-scale studies studying the spread of diseases.
Earlier, Japanese scientists conducted a study and found out the lifespan of COVID-19 on human skin. It turned out that coronaviruses remain active longer than other known viruses.
