wrote a letter Thursday to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, urging the agency to work "aggressively" toward authorizing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 12 as soon as possible.
The U.S. saw "the largest week-over-week percentage increase in pediatric COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic," the group wrote in the letter addressed to Dr.
Janet Woodcok, the acting FDA commissioner.A total of 71,726 COVID cases in children were reported the last week of July, which was "almost double the 38,654 reported in the previous week," according to the AAP.