Tens of thousands of kids are testing positive for the coronavirus as schools try to reopen

• Schools across the US are attempting to reopen, but new data shows that nearly 100,000 children tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the second half of July alone.
• A report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association reveals that 8.8% of all COVID-19 cases in the US have been in children.
• Some schools that have tried to reopen have already had to shut down due to outbreaks.

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In the early stages of the novel coronavirus pandemic, we were told that children were less likely to be infected than adults, and even if they were to catch it, they wouldn't be as contagious and they would frequently be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Five months into the pandemic, it has become clear that the virus's ability to spread to and from younger individuals was severely understated, and now we have the data to prove it.

According to a joint report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, 97,078 kids tested positive for COVID-19 over the last two weeks of July, which represents a 40% increase. Overall, 338,982 children have been infected, which represented 8.8% of all US cases at the time of the report.

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