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Children, Women Just As Likely To Contract COVID-19, But Men Exhibit Worse Symptoms, Study Suggests

Alexandra SternlichtForbes Staff

An analysis of COVID-19 cases in Shenzhen, China, found that infection rates in young children were no lower than the population average, and that women were roughly equally represented as men, but men were 2.5 times as likely to exhibit severe symptoms.
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SHENZHEN, CHINA - MARCH 08: Citizens wearing face masks visit Shenzhen Talent Park in Shenzhen, ... [+] Chen Wen/China News Service via Getty Images
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The analysis of cases identified by the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control from January 14 to February 12 included 187 men and 204 women—but the men were 2.5-times more likely to have severe symptoms like respiratory or organ failure, according to the study, which was published Monday in The Lancet.

Though children were less likely to develop severe symptoms, they were infected at the same rate as their adult counterparts, though the average age of those who tested positive for the disease was 45.

It took five days, on average, for patients in the study to manifest symptoms of COVID-19, but contact tracing and extensive testing reduced identification time to three days, as the study also looked at 1,286 close contacts of the 391 COVID-19 patients.

Only 9-percent of the patients showed severe symptoms at their first doctor evaluation.

On average, each patient infected 0.4 others with coronavirus, and 11.2% of these infections were among housemates; though researchers note this number is observational, it suggests that the “disease that will quickly die out instead of spreading” and is so low due in part “to the Shenzhen CDC’s efforts to detect and isolate the index cases and their contacts.”

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