A Look at DESE's Cited Sources: Footnote #64 - Suppression of COVID-19 outbreak in the municipality of Vo, Italy

DESE Claim: "After an outbreak in Italy, no children under 10 were infected and children 11-20 were infected at half the overall rate."

Cited Source: Lavezzo, E., Franchin, E., Ciavarella, C., Cuomo-Dannenburg, G., Barzon, L., Del Vecchio, C., ... & Abate, D. (2020). Suppression of COVID-19 outbreak in the municipality of Vo, Italy. medRxiv. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20053157v1

Peer Reviewed: No - preprint

Study Methodology: "We collected information on the demography, clinical presentation, hospitalization, contact network and presence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in nasopharyngeal swabs"

Notes: The municipality was locked down upon the first death from COVID-19. A large percentage of the population was tested for SARS-CoV-2. 73 cases (out of 2,812 subjects) were found. Of those, none were kids under 10. The positive rate for people 11-20 was 1.2%, compared to an overall infection rate of 2.6%.

Supports DESE Claim?: Yes. In this particular outbreak, there were not any infected children under 10, and a lower infection rate in people 11-20.