The recent surge of COVID-19 cases across the country is revealing that children make up a large portion of the affected population. According to NBC News, multiple doctors across the country said children are being infected due to unvaccinated adults coming home with the coronavirus. “Household infections are the beginning of this pandemic, that is a major driving force in the spread of infections. We see it often within households, parents to children,” Dr. Jim Versalovic, chief pathologist and interim chief pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, told NBC News. “We have certainly seen siblings — more than two at times — with an infection at the same time, so spread within households is certainly a very real phenomenon.” According to The New York Times, doctors are concerned that the new Delta variant is not only highly contagious, but children are more susceptible. Despite concerns, there isn't conclusive research that the new variant is more severe in children....
