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More children went to the hospital and emergency room in the states that report the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. USA (CDC).
Children have largely been spared the worst of COVID-19 - hospitalizations and deaths are rarer among children than among adults - although recently children's hospitals have been filling up in critical areas across the country.
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Research published Friday during the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found that hospitalizations and emergency room visits for children with Covid-19 increased from June to August this year.
How did the hospitalizations of children evolve?
Over a two-week period in mid-to-late August, emergency room visits were 3.4 times higher in the states with the lowest vaccination rates and hospitalizations were 3.7 times higher than in the US. states with the highest vaccination rates.
The states with the lowest vaccination coverage were in the south.
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"Widespread community-wide vaccination of eligible individuals is a key component of mitigation strategies to protect pediatric populations from SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe covid-19 disease," the team led wrote. by the CDC.
And while the highly contagious delta variant sent more children to the hospital with COVID-19, it was a similar proportion to the numbers in the pandemic, a second report found.
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The team found that hospitalization rates increased fivefold among children and adolescents, increasing rapidly from late June to mid-August, coinciding with the spread of the delta variant in the United States.
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The hospitalization rate among unvaccinated adolescents was 10 times that of vaccinated adolescents.
Hospitalizations were highest among children up to 4 years old and adolescents 12-17 years old.
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One in four children who were hospitalized required intensive care.
Since the data used for this study comes from the records of hospitalized children, it is not shown whether more children were hospitalized just because they were exposed to more diseases in their community or whether the delta variant was the one that made the children sickest.
However, the study added: "The proportions of children and adolescents hospitalized with severe disease were similar before and during the period of delta dominance."
Children do not have a more serious disease from the delta variant, explains CDC director
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky highlighted the studies Thursday at the White House covid-19 briefing, saying they showed children were not contracting a more serious illness from the delta variant. .
"And although we are seeing more cases in children and more cases in general, these studies showed that there was no greater severity of the disease in children. Instead, more children have covid-19 because there are more sick people in the community," he said .
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"What is clear from these data is that vaccination coverage at the community level protects our children. As the number of COVID-19 cases increases in the community, so will the number of children who become ill, who go to the emergency room and are admitted to the hospital. "
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That makes it important to protect children.
"Preventive measures to reduce transmission and serious effects in children and adolescents are essential, including vaccination, the universal use of masks in schools and the use of masks by people 2 years and older in other indoor public spaces. and child care centers, "wrote the CDC-led researchers.
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