COVID-19 in Children
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association are collaborating to collect and share all publicly available data from states on child COVID-19 cases.
Over 580,000
child COVID-19 cases were reported for the week ending January 6th, a 78% increase over the 325,000 cases reported the week ending December 30th and almost triple the case counts from the two weeks prior.
11%
of the nearly 8.5 million COVID-19 cases in children have been added between December 27, 2021 and January 10, 2022.
11,255
is the number of cases per 100,000 children in the population.
17.4%
of all COVID-19 cases are children.
1.7%-4.3%
of the total cumulated hospitalizations from 24 states and NYC were child COVID-19 cases.
0.1%-1.6%
of 24 states and NYC child COVID-19 cases resulted in hospitalization.
12%
is the increase in the cumulated number of child COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic over two weeks,
12/23/21-1/6/22
6,431
is the number of children who have contracted Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrom (MIS-C), as a complication to COVID-19