Weekly pediatric COVID-19 infections have risen by more than 40% since late October.
ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton explains how vaccines work.The rush to vaccinate children against COVID-19 is accelerating amid a steady increase in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations nationwide.
MORE: What you need to know about COVID-19 boosters and how long they take to work/> The rise in pediatric infections marks the third consecutive weekly increase, after several weeks of consistent decline in cases and hospital admissions throughout the fall. However, despite the prior decline in new cases, pediatric infection rates had remained “extremely high,” the organizations wrote. For 15 consecutive weeks, child COVID-19 cases have been above 100,000, with a total of nearly 6.
Amid this viral resurgence, health experts are urging parents to get their eligible children vaccinated.COVID-19"is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in children,” Dr. Leana Wen, emergency physician and professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, said during a briefing Wednesday with the National Press Foundation.
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