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Kids’ COVID cases on the rise, but most are mild, new data show – CIDRAP

Racial minorities and other at-risk children appear to have more serious outcomes.

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While the proportion of COVID-19 cases in children has tripled or quadrupled since the start of the pandemic, it remains below their proportion of the US population, and hospitalizations and deaths are uncommonalthough racial minorities and those with public insurance and underlying conditions appear to be at higher risk for serious outcomes, according to two new studies.
Case growth rate by region, month
In the first study, published late last week in Pediatrics, researchers from the American Academy…

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