At least 338,000 children have had confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. More than a quarter of them tested positive during just the last two weeks in July.
The American Academy of Pediatrics that is believed to result from kids being exposed to the coronavirus. Of the 570 cases of MIS-C reported to the CDC by July 29, almost three in four were in Black and Hispanic children.
The barrage of new studies and reports about kids and COVID-19 come as cities and states grapple with whether to reopen schools, and how to do so in a safe manner. Meanwhile, parents are deliberating whether to trust sending their children back into classrooms, or opt to spend big money cobbling together teaching pods and homeschooling programs to educate their kids in smaller groups.
Read more:‘It was chaos!’ Students get suspended for posting pictures of packed halls — now the high school is closing after 9 people were infected “People thought maybe [young children] can’t get infected, and that is not the case. They definitely do get infected,” study author and pediatric infectious diseases specialist Dr. Taylor Heald-Sargent recently told MarketWatch. “And once they get infected, they have rip-roaring amounts of virus.”
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