Kids are making up larger proportion of Covid-19 cases now, CDC says...

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Children and teens are starting to make up a larger proportion of coronavirus cases now than earlier in the epidemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is holding a public meeting to discuss whether to recommend Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in youth as young as 12. The US Food and Drug Administration extended its emergency use authorization for the vaccine in 12-15-year-olds Monday.

The CDC’s Dr. Sara Oliver said children and teens are starting to account for a larger share of new coronavirus infections. “In April, 9% of cases were aged 12-17 years, which actually represents a larger proportion of cases than adults 65 and older,” she told the ACIP meeting.

“However, we note that diagnosed and reported cases are an underestimate,” she added. Adjusted estimates, she said, showed 22 million children ages 5-17 had been infected with coronavirus, accounting for 19% of all infections. The CDC has said the official count of diagnosed coronavirus cases underestimates the true count.

Early in the pandemic, older adults accounted for more cases, Oliver said. Now, as more adults are vaccinated, children and teens are making up a larger share of infections.

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More teens hospitalized for Covid-19 than for flu, CDC says

From CNN’s Maggie Fox

More adolescents have been hospitalized for severe coronavirus disease than are usually hospitalized for influenza, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

It’s a clear sign that Covid-19 can be dangerous to children and teens, and an argument for vaccinating children as young as 12, the CDC’s Dr. Sara Oliver told a meeting of CDC’s outside vaccine advisers. 

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is holding a public meeting to discuss whether to recommend Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in youths as young as 12. The US Food and Drug Administration extended its emergency use authorization for the vaccine in 12-15-year-olds Monday.

“Adolescents 12 to 17 years of age are at risk of severe illness from Covid-19,” Oliver told the meeting. “There have been over 1.5 million reported cases and over 13,000 hospitalizations to date among adolescents 12 to 17 years.”

A comparison of hospitalization rates from past annual influenza epidemics shows more children and teens have been hospitalized because of Covid than for flu, Oliver said.

“Overall the hospitalization rate for Covid in this population is higher than the influenza-associated hospitalization rate for the same age group during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic,” she said. The Covid hospitalization rate for 12-17-year-olds has also been significantly higher for Covid than it was for flu in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, she said.

The committee is scheduled to vote at 2:45 p.m. ET.

 

 

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