Are Kids COVID’s Secret Weapon?

High viral loads with minimal symptoms may be a recipe for disaster

This week, one of the headline-generatingist COVID studies coming out in a while, appearing in the Journal of Pediatrics.

You’ve probably seen this one in the news. USA Today suggested that healthy kids may be more contagious than sick adults. Kaiser health news gave it a similar treatment. And Fox news gives us this, for example:

The message from these headlines is pretty clear — but they all contain an error. That error… will become clear by the end of this commentary.

Ok let’s walk through the study because there are actually quite a few worthy take-home points here.

Kids in the MGH Study

Researchers from MGH recruited kids who presented to the hospital or urgent care clinic with COVID-like…