![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortages of COVID-19 tests during surges and the increasing use of COVID-19 home tests likely affect the undercounting of COVID-19 cases. The extremely high volume of cases during the Omicron surge followed by the sharp decline in cases may have created discontinuities in state reports week to week. States may have additional information on their web sites.Ĭhanges in testing and how states report might affect week to week comparisons. Additionally, as of 3/17/22, FL published case data available every other week. For example, due to several changes on their dashboards and the data currently available, AL, TX, HI, DC, MS, SC, NE, and MN data in this report are not current (cumulative data through 7/29/21, 8/26/21, 1/13/22, 3/3/22, 3/10/22, 4/28/22, 5/12/22, and 6/30/22 respectively). Notably, in the summer of 2021 and winter of 2022, some states have revised cases counts previously reported, begun reporting less frequently, or dropped metrics previously reported. All data reported by state/local health departments are preliminary and subject to change and reporting may change over time. The data are based on how public agencies collect, categorize and post information. The numbers in this report represent cumulative counts since states began reporting. Over two weeks, 10/6/22-10/20/22, there was a Overall rate: 19,754 cases per 100,000 children in the population.Summary of Findings (data available as of 10/20/22) : Cumulative Number of Child COVID-19 Cases* It is important to recognize there are immediate effects of the pandemic on children’s health, but importantly we need to identify and address the long-lasting impacts on the physical, mental, and social well-being of this generation of children and youth. There is a need to collect more age-specific data to assess the severity of illness related to new variants as well as potential longer-term effects. ![]() Reported cases are likely a substantial undercount of COVID-19 cases among children. Since the pandemic began, children represented 18.4% of total cumulated cases.įor the current week ending October 20th, this portion of reported cases that were children was 11.3% (children, under age 18, make up 22.2% of the US population). The age distribution of reported COVID-19 cases was provided on the health department websites of reporting states, New York City, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. This marks the second time reported weekly child cases have dropped below 30,000 since early April 2022. This week nearly 23,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported, a decrease from the previous week. Over 130,000 of these cases have been added in the past 4 weeks. The definition of “child” case is based on varying age ranges reported across states (see report Appendix for details and links to all data sources).Īs of October 20th, almost 14.9 million children are reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic according to available state reports. 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. State-level reports are the best publicly available and timely data on child COVID-19 cases in the United States. ![]()
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