Over 7.5 Million Child COVID-19 Cases Reported

In the United States, over 7.5 million children have tested positive for COVID-19. The overall rate was 10,052 cases per 100,000 children in the population.

In the United States, over 7.5 million children have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association.

A total of 7,565,416 child COVID-19 cases had been reported across the country as of December 23, and children represented 17.4 percent of all confirmed cases, according to the report published on Monday.

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‘Children accounted for 1.8 to 4.1 percent of total reported hospitalizations and 0 to 0.27 percent of all COVID-19 deaths.’

The overall rate was 10,052 cases per 100,000 children in the population, Xinhua news agency reported.

COVID-19 cases among US children are "extremely high and increasing," according to the report.

For the week ending December 23, nearly 199,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported, a 50 percent increase over the weekly new cases at the beginning of December. This marked the 20th consecutive week child COVID-19 cases are above 100,000.

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Since the first week of September, there have been over 2.5 million additional child cases, according to the AAP.

"At this time, it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is uncommon among children.

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However, there is an urgent need to collect more data to assess the severity of illness related to new variants as well as the longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children, including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects," the AAP added in the report.

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