More kids are ending up in the hospital with COVID, with the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and Yale-New Haven Health saying they have seen an increase.
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Emily Boehm, of Enfield, receives her first dose of Pfizer vaccine at the Community Health Center Inc. mass vaccination site at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.Dan Haar / Hearst Connecticut Media
Children ages 12 to 15 will start getting vaccinated this week, and though experts say preventing transmission of the coronavirus is one of the main reasons to inoculate children, serious COVID-19 infections have occurred among this age group.
The exact number of children infected and hospitalized with COVID-19 is unknown since data is collected for broader age groups, but doctors at Connecticut hospitals said pediatric cases have occurred throughout the pandemic.