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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by vanniv on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:03AM (#22420698)
For some reason, coronaviruses generally rarely affect children -- and those that get it rarely spread it to others despite children being fucking disease magnets.

This seems not to be very well understood, but it is really interesting.

So far there are no known cases affecting children under 2 (as of two days ago when I read the paper about coronavirus and children)

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by JimDabell on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:25AM (#22421073)
> So far there are no known cases affecting children under 2

This is not the case, there have been a couple of babies infected in Singapore.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by netheril96 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:56AM (#22420954)
There have been several infants in China having contracted COVID-19. But no deaths yet.
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