New cases of COVID-19 rose among children for the fourth consecutive week.
New cases of COVID-19 rose among children for the fourth consecutive week, but the size of the increase declined for the second consecutive week, based on data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.
After new child cases jumped by 22% during the week of July 15-21, the two successive weeks have produced increases of 3.9% and 1.2% . The latest weekly count from all states and territories still reporting was 96,599, the AAP and CHA said in their , noting that several states have stopped reporting child cases and that others are reporting every other week.The deceleration in new cases, however, does not apply to emergency department visits and hospital admissions. The proportion ofrose steadily throughout June and July, as 7-day averages went from 2.6% on June 1 to 6.3% on July 31 for children aged 0-11 years, from 2.1% to 3.1% for children aged 12-15, and from 2.4% to 3.
A smaller but more detailed sample of children from the COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Network , which covers nearly 100 counties in 14 states, indicates that theis occurring almost entirely among children aged 0-4 years, who had a rate of 5.6 per 100,000 for the week of July 17-23, compared with 0.8 per 100,000 for 5- to 11-year-olds and 1.5 per 100,000 for those aged 12-17, the CDC said.As a group, children aged 0-4 years have not exactly flocked to the COVID-19 vaccine. As of Aug.
That 3.8% of children aged less than 5 years represents almost 756,000 initial doses. That compares with over 6 million children aged 5-11 years who had received at least one dose through the first 6 weeks of their vaccination experience and over 5 million children aged 12-15, according to the COVID Data Tracker.Lead image: Maílson Pignata|Dreamstime.
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