Why Babies Are More Resilient Against Covid-19

Understanding infants’ peculiar response to the virus may be a key to finding new treatments

Mariana Lenharo
Elemental
Published in
6 min readSep 28, 2020

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Babies make up a tiny percentage of all diagnosed cases of Covid-19. In the United States, where 1.2% of the population are children under one year of age, they account for only 0.27% of the positive tests, according to a Centers…

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Mariana Lenharo
Elemental

Science and health journalist with a special interest in evidence-based medicine and epidemics. Columbia Journalism School alumna. mari.lenharo@gmail.com.