The average daily increase in the number of covid-19 hospitalizations among children in the United States in a week has reached a new high, and the U.S. infectious disease experts: heartbreaking

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"So heartbreaking. Paul Ofite, an infectious disease specialist at children's hospitals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, expressed this sentiment for the record number of covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States in a week.

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According to the Associated Press reported on the 30th, the new crown virus Olmi kerong variant caused a surge in the number of infection cases in the United States, which is making the average number of new daily child hospitalizations reach a record level, and experts regret that most of the people in this group have not been vaccinated.

According to the report, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on the 30th that in the week from the 22nd to the 28th of this month, the average number of new COVID-19 hospitalizations among children aged 17 and under in the United States reached a record 378 per day, an increase of 66% compared with the previous week.

CDC data shows that two months after the vaccine was approved for children ages 5 to 11, only about 14 percent of the population was fully protected. And 53 percent of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are fully protected.

About a week ago, none of the eligible children who were treated at the hospital where he worked had been vaccinated, O'Fett said. Their families were also unvaccinated.

"They have trouble breathing, they cough, they cough, they cough," O'Fette said of the hospital's "heartbreaking" scene, "a small number of people are sent to intensive care for sedative care, we put devices connected to ventilators in their throats, and parents are crying." ”

The next 4 to 6 weeks will be tough, O'Fett said, and the new coronavirus is a virus that spreads rapidly in the winter.

According to a report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Association of Children's Hospitals on the 27th of this month, more than 7.5 million children in the United States have been confirmed to be infected with the new crown virus since the outbreak of the epidemic, with an average of 1 in 10 children infected with the new crown. According to the data updated on the CDC website on the 30th local time, in the week from the 22nd to the 28th of this month, the average daily increase in the number of new coronavirus hospitalizations among children aged 17 years and younger reached nearly 400 in the 7th, which is also the highest record since the center began to collect this data in August 2020. As of the 28th, the cumulative number of hospitalized cases of children with covid-19 in the United States has reached 76,525.