New cases reported among children in the last week of August were 14% higher than they were two weeks earlier, according to data tracked by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Children kept home from Orange County, FL, public schools because their parents are worried about the spread of COVID-19 will no longer be granted excused absences, the school district has announced.
School districts have told 3 News Now they believe almost no transmission was happening in classrooms, but now with such a high number of cases and a highly transmissible variant, they say things have changed.
According to the CDC, COVID hospitalizations for children under 5 have risen 48% in the US since the beginning of December, the largest jump for the age group since the beginning of the pandemic. And new hospitalizations for kids under 18 are at a record level as well: 797 each day.