Original title: Nearly 9.5 million children in the United States are infected with the new crown child cases have increased rapidly
Xinhua News Agency, Washington, January 18 (Reporter Tan Jingjing) Recently, the epidemic situation in the United States has rebounded sharply, and confirmed cases and hospitalizations of children with the new crown continue to surge. The latest report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association on the 18th shows that since the outbreak of the epidemic, nearly 9.5 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with the new crown virus, and the number of new children’s new crown confirmed cases in a single week has exceeded 100,000 for 23 consecutive weeks.
The report counts reported cases of COVID-19 among children across the United States. Data show that as of January 13, the United States has reported a total of 9,452,491 confirmed cases of children, accounting for 17.8% of the total number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the country, with an average of 12,559 infections per 100,000 children.
The report says there has been a “rapid increase” in the number of children infected with the novel coronavirus in the United States. In the week ended on the 13th, the number of new confirmed cases of new crowns in children in the United States increased by 69% from the previous week to nearly 1 million, accounting for 21.4% of the total number of new confirmed cases in the United States in a single week.
According to the report, the number of new confirmed cases of new crowns in children in the United States has exceeded 100,000 for 23 consecutive weeks in a single week. Since the first week of September last year, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crowns in children in the United States has increased by more than 4.4 million.
The report also shows that hospitalized cases of new crown among children in the United States accounted for 1.7% to 4.4% of the total number of hospitalized cases of new crown in the state, and the number of deaths of children with new crown accounted for less than 0.26% of the total number of new crown deaths in the state. The definition of children’s age varies across the United States, and most states set children’s ages from 0 to 19 years old.
The American Academy of Pediatrics said there is an urgent need to collect more data across all age groups to assess severe illness from the mutated new coronavirus and its potential long-term impact on children’s health. It is not only necessary to understand the direct impact of the epidemic on children’s health, but also to study and respond to the long-term impact of the epidemic on the physical and mental health and social activities of children and young people.
Statistics released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States show that as of the evening of the 18th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crowns in the United States exceeded 66 million, accounting for about one-fifth of the US population.
(This article comes from Xinhuanet)