For the seventh consecutive week, COVID-19 infections in Americans kids have declined, according to the latest update from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Nearly 118,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported from Oct 14 to Oct 21, which is down significantly from the pandemic peak of nearly 252,000 child cases documented during the first week of September.
As of Oct 21, 6.3 million American kids have tested positive for the virus, representing 16.5% of all US cases.In related news, hospital admissions are declining sharply among US children with COVID-19, Bloomberg reports.
Daily pediatric admissions involving confirmed COVID have fallen 56% since the end of August, to an average of about 0.2 per 100,000, according to data from the