WASHINGTON —Children who are 10 and younger produce more antibodies in response to coronavirus infection than adolescents and adults, a study showed Monday.
The authors of the paper, which appeared in JAMA Network Open, said the finding helped illuminate why children are less susceptible to severe COVID-19 than adults — though this is still an area of very active research and many factors are believed to be at play.
A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine examined almost 32,000 antibody tests from New York City between April and August 2020, finding that a similar number of the 1,200 children and 30,000 adults showed signs of past infection — 17 percent and …
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