Covid-19: hospitalizations of children under 5 quadruple in New York!

The Omicron variant continues to spread in the United States, where health authorities are seeing an increase in the number of children hospitalized. The New York State Department of Health is “closely monitoring an upward trend in pediatric hospitalizations associated with Covid-19  ,” according to a statement released Friday. “The biggest increase concerns the city of New York with admissions which quadrupled” between the week of December 5 and that of December 19, it is specified. Half of these admissions concern children under the age of 5, who are therefore not yet old enough to be vaccinated.  

The number of Covid-19 cases in the United States continues to rise, with nearly 190,000 new daily cases over the past seven days on average, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The arrival of the new variant and the end-of-year celebrations, synonymous with travel and family reunions, caused a rush on tests in the United States, where it is difficult in some places to obtain it.