This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Canada’s immunity task force is turning its attention to the country’s youngest population groups in an effort to better understand the extent to which children, adolescents and young adults contribute to the spread of COVID-19, and to obtain a more detailed profile of how the disease varies across the age spectrum.
The British Columbia project, dubbed the SPRING study, is aiming to build up a sweeping portrait of the coronavirus pandemic among young people in the province and track its movement through time. Parents who wish to enrol their children in the study will be asked to fill out an online questionnaire and provide blood spots on paper using a finger prick test kit.
“When the first wave of vaccines are available… clearly kids are not going to be a high priority for vaccination,” he said. “But I think moving further down the line we know, from influenza, that vaccinating children is really important because it breaks transmission to the elderly.” “If we can compare that to adults then we’ll have some information about how COVID is spreading in schools,” said Caroline Colijn, a mathematician and disease modeller at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., who is not involved with the Children’s Hospital study.
I’m very happening that this study is happening but we kind of needed the results last fall. Hopefully they can work quickly.