Temporal and age distributions of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses, southeastern France
International Journal of Infectious Diseases Sep 25, 2020
Colson P, Esteves-Vieira V, Giraud-Gatineau A, et al. - Via analyzing all accessible diagnoses of respiratory viruses including SARS-CoV-2 carried out between September 2013 and May 2020 at University Hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, Southeastern France, researchers sought to compare the age and weekly distribution of the five human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 that circulated in southeastern France. For SARS-CoV-2, they observed a temporal distribution similar to that of endemic coronaviruses. However, there was a different age distributions for SARS-CoV2 and other respiratory viruses. Children represented a significantly lower proportion of SARS-CoV-2- positive than all endemic coronavirus-positive. SARS-CoV2 was identified to be the only respiratory virus to spare children.
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