Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report (American Acadamy of Pediatrics)

[teach1st]

Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report (American Acadamy of Pediatrics)

Data available as of 9/2/21

As of September 2, over 5 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic. About 252,000 cases were added the past week, the largest number of child cases in a week since the pandemic began. After declining in early summer, child cases have increased exponentially, with over 750,000 cases added between August 5 and September 2.

At this time, it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is uncommon among children. However, there is an urgent need to collect more data on 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.

Hospitalizations (24 states and NYC reported)
Among states reporting, children ranged from 1.6%-4.1% of their total cumulated hospitalizations, and 0.1%-1.9% of all their child COVID-19 cases resulted in hospitalization

Mortality (45 states, NYC, PR and GU reported)
Among states reporting, children were 0.00%-0.27% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 7 states reported zero child deaths
In states reporting, 0.00%-0.03% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in death

More
https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/

[marie999]

1. Onslow County NC started mandating masks in school on 9/7/2021

Our great-grandson's football game for tomorrow night was cancelled because of infections in the team from Carteret County.

[teach1st]

2. The Florida school district I retired from

My old Florida school district appears (we can't prove it) to be fudging its COVID data, and is definitely not going for a mask mandate. The superintendent is friendly with our governor.

[crickets]

3. K&R for visibility.