With the limited data, the CDC researchers reported the hospitalization rate in children as that range (6 to 20 percent). That’s nearly 20 percent of the cases that had data on hospitalization, but only about 6 percent of the overall 2, 572 pediatric cases. The researchers had data on hospitalization status for just 745 cases. That said, researchers could not dub these cases asymptomatic because it was unclear if all of their potential symptoms had been recorded. And of those 78 cases, 53 didn’t report any symptoms. Of those 291 cases, 78 (27 percent) did not have fever, cough, or shortness of breath (the most common symptoms in adults). The data also suggested that the cases were largely mild, though they only had data on symptoms from 291 of the 2,572 pediatric cases. Among 2,490 cases with sex information, 57 percent were male. Youngsters under one year, those aged one to four, and five to nine, made up 15 percent, 11 percent, and 15 percent of the cases, respectively. Of the 2,572 pediatric cases, nearly 60 percent were in children aged 10 to 17. Children under 18 make up 22 percent of the country’s population. This is a significant underrepresentation of that age group in the US. That is, pediatric cases made up just 1.7 percent of the cases examined. The CDC researchers found the 2,572 pediatric cases among 149,082 cases in total. Children made up a sliver of COVID-19 cases overall and their symptoms appeared largely mild. The data largely echoes that of pediatric cases seen in China and elsewhere. The data was published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The report looked at more than 2,500 cases in infants, children, and adolescents under age 18, collectively referred to as “children” in the study. On Monday, April 6, public health researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the f irst data set on pediatric COVID-19 cases in the United States. But as more data accumulates, we’re getting a clearer picture of what COVID-19 looks like in children-and when its youngest victims are not spared from the worst. They consistently make up small percentages of confirmed cases and nearly all have a mild form of the disease. In all of the grim statistics of COVID-19’s devastation, one seemingly bright spot has been that children seem to be largely unaffected. “Wearing a mask cleans nothing:” Florida judge vacates CDC travel mask mandate.Delta dragged for mask stance, walks back “ordinary seasonal virus” line.

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