As of November 11, 2021, more than 6 million U.S. “We don’t want to add to families’ stress, but we do want parents and children to continue to take COVID-19 seriously enough to maintain precautions - including and especially getting all family members vaccinated as soon as possible.” Cases in kids – and the proportion of cases – are upĪccording to a report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, when the pandemic began and many states went into lockdown, children made up 5% of total cases. Some children have even died, though fortunately deaths have been very rare,” says Children’s Hospital Colorado pediatric infectious disease expert Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH. “While children are less likely to become severely ill from the virus that causes COVID-19, kids can get and spread the virus, they can get sick, and some have been hospitalized. COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in children
We took a deep dive into the myriad ways child health has been impacted – and what we can do about it. Yet the idea that kids are not impacted by the virus is a myth that is as dangerous as it is inaccurate. Throughout the pandemic, one of the so-called silver linings that people have clung to is that COVID-19 affects children less than it affects adults. Reference the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) for current guidance.
Please follow all rules and guidelines set by state and local public health and safety authorities. Wastewater analyses of the virus that causes Covid-19 suggests a recent surge in cases, far from the pandemic peak in January 2022 but in line with the large surge last summer.Editor's note: This page was updated on January 10, 2022. The downturn can be explained with a number of factors including the Increasing use of rapid self-tests-often at-home antigen tests-decreasing testing in general as people return to pre-pandemic lifestyles and many infections being asymptomatic. Covid testing-particularly those using Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests, which are considered to be the most accurate and reliable tests available-has steadily fallen since July and is now at the lowest point since testing first ramped up in May 2020. Official case counts are likely to significantly underestimate the scale of the country’s Covid outbreak. Deaths also offer a narrow picture of the pandemic’s impact and it is important to consider the many who come down with the persistent, sometimes disabling set of symptoms after infection, a condition known as long Covid. The number of excess deaths, which include those who haven’t been counted and whose deaths may be linked to the pandemic, provide a more holistic picture. The true death toll is probably much higher than official figures indicate. Some 350,000 people died with Covid in 2020 and around 475,000 died in 2021. Early data suggests there were far fewer Covid deaths in 2022 than in the previous two years, around 265,000. Since emerging, Covid-19 has consistently ranked as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., trailing two catchall categories encompassing a multitude of distinct ailments: heart disease and cancer. since the pandemic started, according to CDC records. That’s how many Covid-19 deaths there have been in the U.S. The variant has spread rapidly in mid-December, the CDC estimates it accounted for less than 5% of cases. The emergence and spread of infectious new variants also concerns experts, particularly XBB.1.5, an offshoot of omicron that the CDC estimates makes up around half of all Covid cases in the U.S. CDC data suggests uptake of the reformulated shots has been dismal, with around 15% of the population having had one. Officials and experts stress vaccination, particularly with the recent updated booster shots, is important to stay protected. Officials are still plotting out the ways we can live with the virus and experts worry that the ground gained over the last few years has made people complacent to the virus that still kills hundreds each day. Though vaccines and treatments have helped bring down the number of deaths and hospitalizations-and despite the assertion of President Joe Biden-the Covid-19 pandemic is not over. Current levels are markedly higher than those at other points in the pandemic: for most of October and November, for example, hospitalizations hovered between 21,000 and 22,000 and there were around 320 deaths a day in November, according to CDC data.
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