Weekly Child COVID Cases In The U.S. Dip Below 30k

This is a dramatic decrease from the week ending January 20th of this year.

The number of weekly COVID-19 cases in children has dropped below 30,000 for the first time since July of 2021,  American Academy of Pediatrics data shows. 

This is a dramatic decrease from the week ending January 20th of this year, when there were more than 1.1 million cases in children.  

COVID-19 cases among children spiked dramatically in 2022 due to the Omicron variant surge, and over 4.9 million child cases were reported since the beginning of January.