Xinhua News Agency, Washington, March 7 (Reporter Tan Jingjing) The latest report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association on the 7th shows that in the week ending on the 3rd, nearly 69,000 new children were diagnosed with the new crown in the United States. For the first time since early August, the increase in confirmed cases in children in a single week fell below 100,000.
The report shows that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, more than 12.7 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with the new crown, accounting for about 19% of all confirmed cases.
Since the beginning of this year, the accelerated spread of the mutated new coronavirus Omicron strain in the United States has led to a surge in the number of confirmed cases of new crown among children in the United States, which set a record of 1.15 million cases in a single week in January.
However, the recent weekly increase in the number of confirmed cases of new crowns in children in the United States has continued to decline, and this is the sixth consecutive weekly decline.
Since the beginning of January, there have been more than 4.8 million new confirmed cases of the new crown in children in the United States.
In the past four weeks, there have been nearly 670,000 new confirmed cases of new crowns in children in the United States.
The definition of children's age varies across the United States, and most states set children's ages from 0 to 19 years old.
The American Academy of Pediatrics said there is an urgent need to collect more epidemic data across all age groups to assess the severity of the disease caused by the mutated new coronavirus and its potential long-term impact on children's health.
It is not only necessary to understand the direct impact of the epidemic on children's health, but also to study and respond to the long-term impact of the epidemic on the physical and mental health and social activities of children and young people.