Health

LA Times

And although Trump has said he does not believe school-age children get sick from the virus, at least 58% of those who tested positive had COVID-19 symptoms at the time they were tested, the CDC researchers reported. The new research, published Monday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, is one of the public health agency's first efforts to count and characterize coronavirus infections in the nation's school-age population. As a new school year gets underway and some schools reopen to students, it will be "critical to have a baseline for monitoring trends in COVID-19 infection among school-aged children," the authors wrote.