Child hospitalizations for Covid-19 have increased to levels not seen since January, when U.S. cases and deaths were at their highest levels, latest government data shows.
Texas, with 45 percent of the state fully vaccinated, is averaging 15,000 Covid cases a day, at the higher end of state Covid rates when adjusted for population.
Florida has the second-highest number of hospitalizations, at an average of 188 children a day, as of the latest figures. Mestre said almost all of the older children, who make up about half the current hospitalizations, were unvaccinated., 44 percent of the state’s teenagers have been vaccinated. Half of Florida’s population has been vaccinated.
“It’s been a pretty busy week,” said Dr. Scott James, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who treats patients at Children’s of Alabama hospital.
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