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Montreal pediatric specialist answers questions about the coronavirus and kids

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COVID-19 affects young children less severely than older adults, but parents are still coping with the stress that their kids could be vectors of transmission.Global News’ Raquel Fletcher spoke with Dr.

Christos Karatzios, a pediatric infectious diseases assistant professor at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, about the questions parents might have, like wearing masks in schools and what parents need to know about the new vaccines.

Do we know why COVID-19 affects children under 10 differently? This is still being studied. There are multiple explanations and theories that we are looking at.

The first one is the number of receptors that children have that do not allow the huge viral load to infect the child. The coronavirus family is a family.

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