Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report

Children’s Covid cases top 1 million in one week

More than 1.15 million children were diagnosed with Covid-19 in one week, the American Academy of Pediatrics reports. The latest figures are likely lower than the real number of cases for the week ending Jan. 20, AAP said, based on how states share their data.

The number still represents a jump of 17% on top of the 981,000 cases counted for the week ending Jan. 13, and it's double the cases from the week ending Jan. 6. So far, more than 10.6 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 during the pandemic’s first two years.

Consider this: More than 2 million of these children have been diagnosed in the past two weeks. “These numbers are staggering,” Moira Szilagyi, AAP president, said in a statement urging people to wear masks in public, isolate when sick, and get vaccinated. 

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The European Union recommended on Tuesday that people traveling among its 27 member states who have been vaccinated in the past nine months or recovered from the coronavirus should not face additional restrictions like testing or quarantine — the latest indication that the bloc is accepting Covid-19 as a part of everyday life rather than a severely disruptive force.

The change came a day after the World Health Organization said that the spread of the Omicron variant could change the pandemic from overwhelming to manageable.