More than 500,000 children in the U.S. have tested positive for coronavirus since pandemic started, report says – CBS News

New records out this week reveals that more than 500,000 children in the U.S. savor tested obvious for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, in step with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The neighborhood said children represented 9.8% of all COVID-19 circumstances in the U.S., the place more than 6.3 million total circumstances were reported, per a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

The AAP reported there were 70,630 fresh tiny one circumstances, a 16% prolong over two weeks, between August 20 and September 3, which brings the nationwide total to 513,415. Puerto Rico used to be among six states and territories that confirmed an prolong in tiny one circumstances.

The AAP and the Formative years’s Scientific institution Association compiled the records of kids of varying ages as reported by 49 issue smartly being departments, New York City, Puerto Rico and Guam. Texas used to be excluded from the diagnosis, the AAP noteworthy.

Coronavirus deaths among children

The portray said the cumulative demise toll in the U.S. for children attributable to the coronavirus is 103. In a subset of data that used to be analyzed from 42 states and New York City, children were 0-0.3% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 18 states reported zero tiny one deaths.

“At this time, it seems that excessive sickness attributable to COVID-19 is uncommon among children,” the AAP said. But smartly being consultants savor said that children can spread COVID-19.

In the intervening time, the Centers for Illness Adjust has issued fresh records a number of deadly and mysterious pediatric sickness with obvious hyperlinks to the coronavirus. Since mid-Could presumably merely, the CDC has been following a virulent disease of Multisystem Inflammatory Illness in Formative years (MIS-C), which is additionally or in most cases in most cases known as PMIS.

The CDC describes it as “a uncommon but excessive situation connected to COVID-19” that in most cases presents after a COVID sickness or after contact with somebody with COVID-19. Fairly than attacking the lungs like the fresh coronavirus illness does in adults, this syndrome, while reputedly very uncommon, can trigger excessive, even deadly cardiac complications in children.

As of September 3, the CDC has peaceable stories of 792 confirmed circumstances of MIS-C and 16 deaths across 42 states, New York City and Washington, D.C. Other circumstances are underneath investigation.

The CDC’s records suggests that “most circumstances are in children between the ages of 1 and 14 years, with a median age of 8 years.” They additionally indicate that “more than 70% of reported circumstances savor occurred in children who’re Hispanic/Latino (276 circumstances) or Non-Hispanic Murky (230 circumstances).”

Some students returning to in-particular person classes

The AAP portray used to be released as hundreds of kids returned to college this week for in-particular person classes. On Long Island, dad and mother seemed worried and angry as they dropped their children off.

College students lined up in Richardson, Texas, for temperature checks earlier than entering the constructing. Forrester Elementary in San Antonio is frequently packed with 850 children; but this morning, handiest 53 opted for in-particular person classes.

“I feel like they’re upright fair a tiny off steadiness, maybe fair a tiny bit with the rooms searching varied, all people carrying masks,” main Kelly Mantle told CBS Files. “I ponder it would turn out to be a fresh norm for a short time and children are going to get at possibility of it and we’re getting at possibility of it on daily basis that goes by.”

The fresh figures from the AAP savor some educators alarmed, like these in suburban Phoenix, the place the principle day of in-particular person classes used to be canceled after lecturers called in sick.

In New York, fresh circumstances are up more than 25% when compared with two weeks previously. And with New York City faculties making ready for in-particular person classes in the arriving weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo is attempting to quell dad and mother’ fears.

“We’re going to savor a COVID portray card for every college in the issue,” he said.

Omar Villafranca contributed to this portray.