COVID Cases Among Kids & Teens Surged 84% In Just One Week “The delta variant is driving a surge in COVID cases among kids and teens, who now make up nearly 20% of all infections nationwide.”
, who were largely spared from previous variants of the virus. The American Academy of Pediatrics reported on Tuesday that nearly 72,000 kids and teens were infected last week, an 84 percent increase from the week before.
“That’s high and considering the fact that we are vaccinated now, what that’s telling us is that unvaccinated people are getting infected in higher numbers because the virus is more infectious with the Delta variant,” Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, chair of the AAP committee on infectious diseases,In the latest weekly data, kids represent 19 percent of the nation’s total COVID cases. The way kids are defined varies state by state, but generally, it’s people up to 17 or 18 years old.
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