{"id":104879,"date":"2020-04-06T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/cdc-asymptomatic-children-could-play-important-role-in-coronavirus-spread"},"modified":"2020-04-06T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:43:52","slug":"cdc-asymptomatic-children-could-play-important-role-in-coronavirus-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/cdc-asymptomatic-children-could-play-important-role-in-coronavirus-spread","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Asymptomatic children could play important role in coronavirus spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cdc-asymptomatic-children-could-play-important-role-in-coronavirus-spread.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Compared to adults, children with the coronavirus are less likely to be hospitalized or show symptoms like a fever, cough or shortness of breath, new U.S. data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>Those with less serious illness or who are asymptomatic likely play a large role in transmitting the disease. Social distancing is thus important for all age groups, the CDC stressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers: <\/strong>Among the 149,082 confirmed U.S. cases of COVID-19 that the CDC tracked as of April 2, 1.7% were patients under the age of 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to adults, children with the coronavirus are less likely to be hospitalized or show symptoms like a fever, cough or shortness of breath, new U.S. data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. Why it matters: Those with less serious illness or who are asymptomatic likely play a large role in transmitting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}