Pediatric COVID-19 infections currently account for about a third of all cases in Dallas County, a pandemic high for the age group, according to data from the...
The increase in coronavirus cases in children is likely due to return to school, low vaccination rates, health experts say
While pediatric COVID-19 cases are climbing, other age groups have been trending downward for the last month following an early summer surge in cases led by the highly-contagious omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. It’s a pattern that Parkland Health’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joseph Chang said he hasn’t seen up until this point in the pandemic.
The spike in infections among school-aged children is likely attributable to the recent return to school and to the relatively low vaccination rate among younger age groups, said Steve Miff, president and CEO of PCCI. Dallas County had a similar increase in pediatric cases around the same time last year, although those cases didn’t account for as large of a share of the area’s total infections.
And only 35% of people in Dallas County who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine have gone on to get a booster dose, which is available to anyone 5 and older.
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