A Public Health Antibody Screening Indicates a Marked Increase of SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Rate in Children during the Second Wave

Hippich et al update their surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the Bavarian childhood population and show an eight-fold prevalence increase during 2021 as compared to the end of first wave in 2020. Over 50% of positive children were asymptomatic.