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More than 61,000 children got Covid-19 last week, a record – NBC News
The highest number of children with Covid-19 has been recorded, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
More than 61,000 children in the U.S. were diagnosed with Covid-19 last week more than in any other week during the pandemic, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association reported Monday.
In all, 853,635 children have been diagnosed with the virus this year, representing 11.1 percent of all U.S. cases. The percentage of pediatric cases has risen steadily since mid-April, when children accounted for just 2 percent of Covid-19 cases in the country.
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