More than 74K new cases in children in US since early August, report shows
A new report shows a 21% increase in cases among children in the U.S. since Aug. 6.
Data collected by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s hospital Association showed there have been 74,160 new cases in a two week period, Aug 6 to Aug. 20.
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The report went through data provided by 49 states as well as New York City, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam.
Overall, children represented only 9.3% of all cases in states who provided age data.
In total, 442,000 children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
The report notes that “severe illness due to COVID-19 is rare among children” -- 21 states reported zero child deaths in that same two week period and represented 0-0.3% of all COVID-19 deaths, the report states.