KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 Parents have been asked to ensure their children are vaccinated to avoid serious complications of Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). ProtectHealth Corporation Sdn Bhd (ProtectHealth) chief executive officer, Datuk Dr Anas Alam Faizli in a statement.
Hospitals across the Kansas City area are seeing a significant increase of children admitted to the hospital, with not only COVID-19 but respiratory syncytial virus and the flu too.
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As more and more Americans receive the COVID-19 vaccine, infection rates remain stubbornly high and children, those too young for the vaccine, are accounting for more and more of those patients.
New data from the
American Academy of Pediatrics shows children, those 18 and younger, account for 22.4% of new COVID-19 infections in the last week of April. The previous week, ending April 22, children made up 20.9% of new COVID-19 infections.
Overall, more than 3.7 million children have been reported to have contracted COVID-19 and represent 13.8% of the more than 32 million Americans who have been infected
Six states reported 18% or more of all their COVID-19 cases were children; Vermont, Alaska, South Carolina, Tennessee, New mexico and Minnesota.