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According to new government data, the number of children under the age of five who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 has increased dramatically across the country, including an eightfold surge in New York in recent weeks.

Since mid-December, when the extremely contagious omicron variety spread rapidly across the country, the hospitalization rate among these youngest infants who are not eligible for immunization has risen to more than 4 per 100,000 children, up from 2.5 per 100,000 previously.

According to CDC data, the current rate for children aged 5 to 17 is approximately 1 per 100,000.
New pediatric hospital admissions for children aged 0 to 18 years old climbed from 70 to 571 per week in New York from the week of December 5 to 11, 2021 to the week of December 26, 2021, to January 1, 2022. Children aged 0 to four years old accounted for 55% of hospitalizations but accounted for only 26% of the population aged 0 to 18.

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Pediatric admissions grew from 22 to 385 per week in New York City, and from 12 to 112 per week in the Mid-Hudson and Long Island counties combined.

During the week of Dec. 27, 2021, to Jan. 2, 2022, an average of 672 children aged 17 and younger were hospitalized in hospitals across the country with the coronavirus, which was more than double the previous week’s total. Children, on the other hand, make up a minor fraction of individuals admitted to hospitals.

According to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the worrying trend among youngsters emphasizes the importance of older children and adults getting their vaccines to safeguard others around them.

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While children still have the lowest rate of hospitalization of any age group, Walensky noted in a statement that “pediatric hospitalizations are at their highest rate relative to any preceding time in the epidemic.”