TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A growing number of children have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in recent weeks, but only a small fraction of those minors required hospitalization, Florida Department of Health data shows.Of the approximately one million Floridians who have contracted the virus, about 9% were children ranging in age from newborn to 17.
That age group represents about 20% of the state’s population.As of Friday afternoon, the state had received 94,598 reports of children testing positive for COVID-19, an increase of 1,342 cases from the previous day.Of those pediatric infections, state records show 975 have been hospitalized at some point, or roughly 1% of all children who have tested positive for the virus.Those pediatric hospitalizations.