In the last 4 weeks, the average number of children hospitalized with Covid jumped 52%, according to an NBCNews analysis of HHS data.
In the same time period, adult Covid hospitalizations increased 29 percent, suggesting that pediatric hospitalizations rose at nearly twice the rate.
Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told NBC's"TODAY" show on Tuesday that the increase was probably inevitable because of the arrival of winter and the transmissibility of the omicron variant. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, patients are counted among those with Covid if they are suspected of having or laboratory-confirmed positive for the disease, even if they were not originally admitted to the hospital for that reason.
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