Temporal and age distributions of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses, Southeastern France

The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, which apparently started in December in China (Wu and McGoogan, 2020), currently presents a poorly understood epidemiological cycle. It seems to have had in China, Korea and now in Europe a bell-shaped distribution (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases; https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/covid-19/) as is common for viral respiratory infections. Furthermore, we and others have shown that detection of SARS-CoV-2 in children is rare, as are clinical cases (Colson et al., 2020; Gudbjartsson et al., 2020; Jones et al., 2020; Li et al., 2020; Wu and McGoogan, 2020).
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research