It is important to recognize there are immediate effects of the pandemic on children’s health, but importantly we need to identify and address the long-lasting impacts on the physical, mental, and social well-being of this generation of children and youth. There is an urgent need to collect more age-specific data to assess the severity of illness related to new variants as well as potential longer-term effects. While COVID-19 cases are likely increasingly under-reported for all age groups, this decline suggests that children are disproportionately undercounted in reported COVID-19 cases. For the current week ending August 25th, this portion was 17.2% (children, under age 18, make up 22.2% of the US population). Since the pandemic began, children represented 18.4% of total cumulated cases.ĭuring the summer of 2022 the portion of reported weekly COVID-19 cases that are children has been notably lower than the summer of 2021. The age distribution of reported COVID-19 cases was provided on the health department websites of reporting states, New York City, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Approximately 6.6 million reported cases have been added in 2022. Over 14.4 million children are reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic according to available state reports nearly 350,000 of these cases have been added in the past 4 weeks. Reported COVID-19 cases among children have decreased substantially from the Omicron variant winter surge, however since mid-May reported weekly cases have plateaued, fluctuating between a high of about 112,000 to 68,000 cases. The definition of “child” case is based on varying age ranges reported across states (see report Appendix for details and links to all data sources).įor the week ending August 25th, about 86,600 child COVID-19 cases were reported, an increase of 9% from the week prior, when 79,500 cases were reported.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association are collaborating to collect and share all publicly available data from states on child COVID-19 cases. State-level reports are the best publicly available and timely data on child COVID-19 cases in the United States. *Note: Due to Labor Day, the 9/1 report will be posted on Tuesday, 9/6.
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