CDC Estimate: Vast Majority Of Iowa Kids Have Had COVID

(Atlanta, GA)  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates a vast majority of Iowa kids have had COVID.  The CDC analyzed samples from children between the ages of six months and 17 years who had blood drawn at commercial labs for non-COVID tests in May and June.  The top government health agency says about 84-and-a-half percent of Iowa children have had COVID or were recovering from an infection in late spring.  Those kids had antibodies present in their blood.  Another study found those antibodies drop after about three months and disappear after a year.