Novel coronavirus infections in more than 12.5 million children in the United States

More than 12.5 million children in the Us have been confirmed with novel coronavirus infections since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Association of Children’s Hospitals on Tuesday. “The accelerated spread of the novel Coronavirus strain of omicron in the United States this year has led to a surge in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in CHILDREN in the United States,” the report said. Since the beginning of January, there have been more than 4.6 million new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in children in the United States. More than 470,000 new cases have been reported in children nationwide in the past two weeks.