Coronavirus infection in American children accounts for 11 percent of all U.S. cases, a new report has found.
As of October 22, 792,188 young people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
By the end of July, only 100,000 children had tested positive, which is about 90 percent of the cases in the last three months.
The report also found that more than 10 percent of pediatric infections have been diagnosed in the last two weeks.
As of October 22, 792,188 U.S. Children tested positive for coronavirus, accounting for 11% of all U.S. cases (above)
In the last two weeks, 94,555 new baby COVID-19 cases have been reported, an increase of 14% over the previous two weeks (above).
About 6.9% of all pediatric covid-19 cases were hospitalized and up to 0.15% died. Picture: Penny Brown, age 2, is being held by her mother, Heather Brown, because her nose was slightly swollen during a test for COVID-19 in Seattle, Washington, on August 28.
According to the report, the overall rate of pediatric coronavirus cases is 1,053 infections per 100,000 children in the population.
Surprisingly high 94,555 new baby COVID-19 cases were reported between October 8 and October 22.
7 697,63 793 to 222,188, an increase of 14 per cent in the last two weeks.
Currently, there are 11 states that report 15 percent or more of their cases in children: Wyoming, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Dakota, New Mexico, Minnesota, Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Wisconsin and Kentucky.
More than 25 per cent of its smallest residents in the state have the highest number of cases in Wyoming.
Meanwhile, U.S. In just two places – New Jersey and New York City – children have less than five percent of their cases.
Currently, there are 11 states that report that 15% or more of their cases are in children (above).
In addition, the last two weeks have seen a 25 percent increase in child cases in nine states: Alaska, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Since the epidemic began, children have studied between five and 16.9 percent of the state’s total tests.
By October 22, between 0.6 percent and 6.9 percent of all children in COVID-19 had been hospitalized
About 0.15 percent of all children infected with the virus have died, and pediatric deaths have not been reported in 16 states.
“At the moment, it seems that serious illnesses caused by COVID-19 are rare in children,” you wrote in your report.
“However, states should continue to provide detailed reports on COVID-19 cases, testing, hospitalization and mortality by age and race / ethnicity so that the effects of COVID-19 on children’s health can be documented and monitored.”
The AAP recommends that children, like adults, wear masks, avoid large crowds in public places and from social distance.
The group also suggests that children aged six months or older get flu shots before the end of October to avoid a possible ‘minor’ disease this coming winter.
Over the summer, President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that children are ‘essentially immune’ to COVID-19 during his call for schools to reopen.
Trump said during a press briefing at the White House in August Gust that “there could be a case, a small, a small fraction of a death, a small fraction and they improve very quickly.”
‘I think that for the most part, [kids] Don’t get too sick, they can’t catch it very easily, and … they don’t transfer it to others, or certainly not very easily. ‘
However, at least 1000 children who have COVID-19 or someone around them who are infected with the virus have developed multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a condition in which there is swelling in different parts of the body.
In addition, reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at an overnight summer camp in Georgia suggest that children are susceptible to coronavirus and infect others.
Of the 344 campers and staff tested, 260 were diagnosed with the virus after spending less than a week, mainly without wearing a mask.
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