UW News

Melanie Martin


November 2, 2022

Infants less likely to contract COVID, develop severe symptoms than household caregivers

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In one of the first studies to explore how COVID-19 specifically affects older infants, researchers from the University of Washington and at institutions at four other locations in the Western and Southern U.S. found that the number of infected people in a household was the factor most closely linked with the infant’s likelihood of being infected.