U.S. COVID-19 HOSPITALIZATION RATE FOR CHILDREN SOAR

Fri 20 August 2021:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that COVID-19 hospitalization rates for children in the United States have reached their highest levels ever.

Around the country, child hospitalizations for Covid-19 have increased to levels not seen since January, when U.S. cases and deaths were at their highest levels, according to the latest government data. Doctors in the hospitals hardest hit by the recent surge say the situation is worse than it was in January.

At the start of the pandemic, pediatric hospitalizations were rare, but with the more aggressive delta strain, children are now packing hospitals.

As for adults, every age group under 50 has also surpassed its previous record of hospitalization, said the report, adding that “the biggest increase was in adults ages 30 to 39 and children under 18, both of which were more than 30 percent higher than their previous peak.”

The current rate of hospitalization for all ages is still below the figure in January, but considering more than 11,000 new hospital admissions have been recorded over the past week, the United States might reach a new record high within a month, according to the CDC.

Hospitalizations are rising as some children return to the classroom in an acrimonious back-to-school kickoff that has politicians, parents and school officials fighting over mask mandates.

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