Children Can Spread COVID for About Three Days, Study Finds

The study’s findings should prompt a reduction in the CDC’s isolation guidance, expert says.

A student's temperature is checked in California in a file image. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Children infected with COVID-19 were able to spread the illness for about three days, regardless of vaccination status, researchers have reported.

Researchers who tracked 76 children aged 7 to 18 in California found a median duration of infectivity of three days after a positive test result, according to a new study.