The New York Times (4/19, Mueller) reports, “Unvaccinated children from 5 to 11 years old were hospitalized with COVID at twice the rate of vaccinated children during the winter Omicron variant surge, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday.” Furthermore, the study, “based on data from hospitals serving about 10% of the U.S. population across 14 states, also offered some of the strongest evidence to date that racial disparities in childhood vaccination might be leaving Black children more exposed to severe illness from COVID.”
Reuters (4/19, Khandekar) reports the study found that “for every 100,000 unvaccinated children in the age group, 19.1 per were hospitalized with COVID-19 between mid-December and late February, compared with 9.2 per 100,000 vaccinated kids.”
Related Links:
— “Omicron Was More Severe for Unvaccinated Children in 5-to-11 Age Group, Study Shows ” Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times, April 19, 2022