More than 1 million US kids have had COVID-19
Published:Monday | November 16, 2020 | 4:55 PM
The number of United States infants, children and teens diagnosed with COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million, according to data released Monday by the American Academy of Paediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.
The total hit nearly 1.04 million kids on November12, including nearly 112,000 new cases in that week.
That was the highest weekly total of any previous week in the pandemic, the academy said.
AAP President Sally Goza called the data “staggering and tragic.”
Children generally are much more likely than adults to have mild cases but hospitalisations and deaths do occur.
The data, based on reports from state health departments, show at least 6,330 paediatric hospitalisations and 133 deaths since May.
Those numbers are incomplete as they do not include data from every state.
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