WASHINGTON: Nearly 9.5 million children in the United States have been tested positive for Covid-19 since the beginning of the Pandemic, and Covid-19 Children’s Children have “spiny dramatically” throughout the country, according to the latest American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) report and Association Children’s hospital.
A total of 9,452,491 cases of Covid-19 children have been reported throughout the country on January 13, and children represent 17.8 percent of all confirmed cases, according to reports published on Tuesday.
The overall level is 12,559 cases per 100,000 children in the population.
Nearly one million cases of children were reported in the last week ending January 13, four times the last winter surge rate, according to AAP.
Weekly case count was a 69 percent increase over 580,000 cases added reported by the previous week, and tripled from the number of cases from the previous two weeks, according to AAP.
This marks the 23rd week of consecutive Covid-19 cases in the United States above 100,000.
Since the first week of September, there are more than 4.4 million additional child cases, according to AAP.
Children accounted for 1.7 percent to 4.4 percent of the reported total hospitalization, and 0 to 0.26 percent of all Covid-19 deaths, according to the report.
“There is an urgent need to collect more age-specific data to assess the severity of diseases associated with new variants and potential long-term effects,” AAP said in the report.
“It is important to recognize there is a direct effect of pandemic on the health of children, but the importance of we need to identify and overcome the long-term impact on the physical, mental and social well-being of the generation of children and adolescents,” the report said.