Children account for 22.4% of COVID cases

And long COVID19 among children isn't looking good either.

Rampant spread among children

Children make, on average, 13.8% (or 3.78 million total cases) of all COVID19 cases in the U.S.

But this is changing. According to a American Academy of Pediatrics, last week children accounted for 22.4% of cases (71,649 out of 319,601 COVID diagnoses). Just one year ago, pediatric cases made up 3% of U.S. cases.

Important n…