COVID-19 likely to become common childhood disease

Covid‌–19 is set to become a common cold in young children in the coming days, according to a recent US-Norwegian study.

According to the survey, the Coronavirus may behave like other common cold in the coming years, affecting mostly young children who have not yet been vaccinated or exposed to the virus.

The survey, which has so far shown little or no effect on children with Covid-19, predicts that adults will be less likely to be exposed to the virus if they are vaccinated.

“Following infection by SARS-CoV-2, there has been a clear signature of increasingly severe outcomes and fatality with age,” said Ottar Bjornstad from the University of Oslo in Norway.

“In the future, all adults will be infected with the virus or will be vaccinated. This will greatly reduce the severity of the virus. It turns out to be a common cold for children who have not been vaccinated,” said Ottar.

Details of the study were published in the journal Science Advances. He said that once in the past, many epidemics had first turned violent and then turned into common diseases in children.

“For example, ongoing genomic work suggests that the 1889-1890 pandemic, sometimes known as the Asiatic or Russian flu — which killed one million people, primarily adults over age 70 — may have been caused by the emergence of HCoV-OC43 virus, which is now an endemic, mild, repeat-infecting cold virus affecting mostly children ages 7-12 months old,” he said.