Are children and schools a COVID-19 threat?

The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic in Germany may represent the sum of a large number of local but independent epidemics each initiated by individuals aged 10–19 years, middle‐aged males, or elderly individuals

“…The impact of children for the course of the pandemic is still a matter of discussion. 1,2 This concerns the general susceptibility of children towards severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), 3 their impact on viral transmission, [3][4][5] the viral loads in pediatric respiratory specimen compared with adults, [6][7][8][9][10][11] and the time spans of viral shedding compared with adults 9,12 or within different pediatric age groups. 13 Hereby, during the first phase of the pandemic, transmission rates from children to further contact persons have been reported to range from 0.5% to 20%.…”