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Why are children less likely than adults to spread COVID-19?
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Children aren t a major source of COVID transmission even to people they live with.
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Small children often seem to be petri dishes of disease, rocking a perpetually runny nose and in the grip of a seemingly endless string of colds that they pass on to their classmates and family.
But as the pandemic played out this year, it became clear that this didn t really appear to be the case for COVID-19.
On Wednesday, when announcing changes to visitor numbers in Greater Sydney, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said children under 12 have been proven not to be carriers or transmitters of the disease .
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