If you live with kids, you are not at a greater risk of contracting Covid-19, according to a large study carried out in the United Kingdom.

Living with children was associated with a lesser risk of dying from the Covid-19 compared to those that did not live with children, researchers from the University of Oxford and London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found. The researchers intended to investigate the growing concern that children may serve as a major reservoir for the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

The research team wrote: “This is the first population-based study to investigate whether the risk of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe outcomes from Covid-19 differ between adults living in households with and without school-aged children during the UK pandemic.”. The study revealed that working-age adults (aged 65 years or younger), living with children aged 0 to 11 years, were not associated with an increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 related hospitalizations, compared with working-age adults who did not live with children.

Among this age group, living with children aged 12 to 18 years was associated with a slightly increased risk of infection (8 percent), but not with Covid-19 outcomes. In contrast, living with children of any age lowered the risk of deaths due to causes unrelated to COVID-19. Among adults older than 65 years, no associations were identified between living with children and any outcomes related to SARS-CoV-2.

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