'The pediatric cases are in all of the same states that we know are surging with adults who have disease,' Dr. Jodie Dionne-Odom said. Those states include Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Tennessee.
"That got our attention," said Dr. Susan Coffin, a professor of pediatric infectious disease at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.
The summer spike came after an apparent lull in pediatric infections this past spring. Coffin suggested it was because in-person schooling had been halted, and children largely remained indoors, away from others in March and April. But the warmer months lead to an"We cannot simply assume that we don't have to worry about kids because they don't get infected," said Dr. Sean O'Leary, vice chair of the committee on infectious diseases for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
O'Leary noted that some of the rise seen in kids is likely reflective of more testing. But largely, the spike is related to a spike in overall infections."In places where there are large increases in adult infections, there are also large increases in infections in children," he said.Children accounted for 1.6 percent of all COVID-19 hospitalizations in the AAP report.
Ninety young people have died with COVID-19, according to the report. Some of those had been diagnosed with an extremely rare but serious disease called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, which is strongly believed to be linked to the coronavirus, according to the
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