[glormph]

Exactly. The paper itself concludes somewhat softer that "children may be a potential source of contagion in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in spite of milder disease or lack of symptoms"

The patient group consisted of "children ... presenting to urgent care clinics or being hospitalized for confirmed/suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children", so they are pre-selected , making the role of the full amount of children in the population in spreading harder to know.

As you note, that doesnt rule it out either.

[lbeltrame]

I still feel a little sour about this result: mainly because it's "easier" to find data on adult patients, but children data are far harder to get.

So I feel this is a wasted opportunity.