re: Am I safe?

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Literally no positive cases of COVID-19 reported world wide in kids or children 9 and younger.

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Are children less likely to be infected than adults?
It’s not yet entirely clear if children are less likely to be infected, or if their cases have simply been more likely to go undetected because they have milder symptoms. In late February, the World Health Organization said “it is not possible to determine the extent of infection among children” or “whether children are less susceptible.”

So far, adults have made up the vast majority of confirmed cases, and cases with more severe symptoms. When researchers recently looked at nearly 45,000 confirmed cases in China, fewer than 1% were in children ages 9 and under, while around 1.2% of cases were in children and teens ages 10 to 19, according to data published in late February in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (None of the children under 9 died, and only one of the older children died, the same data showed.)

But new data has epidemiologists thinking children could have similar rates of infection as adults, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Research released last week examining data from a Chinese public health authority found child infection rates were comparable to adult infection rates if authorities tested people who had come into contact with others who tested positive, rather than just testing those with obvious symptoms.

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