EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: Crisis Response Tactics Many Young Kids With COVID Show No Symptoms of the Disease By Staff Wednesday, September 7, 2022 7:56 AM Don’t count on a runny nose. Young kids with COVID-19 often have no symptoms at all, even when they have a high amount of the virus in them, according to a new study.Just 14 percent of adults who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, had no symptoms of the disease, versus 37 percent of children up to age 4, the researchers found.This raises concern that parents, childcare providers, and preschools may not be seeing the level of infection in seemingly healthy young kids who have been exposed to COVID-19, wrote lead author Ruth A. Karron, MD, and colleagues in the Journal of the American Medical Association Open. Head over to WebMD to read the full story.