COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review: Interpretive Summary for September 24, 2021

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• Alternative Title:
  Healthy Habits, Healthy Kids
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Interpretive Summary for September 24, 2021
  
  Healthy Habits, Healthy Kids
  
  Fewer cases of COVID-19 have been reported in children (ages 0-17 years) compared with adults.1–3 Rates of COVID-19-associated hospitalizations are also lower in children than in adults. However, weekly rates of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have recently increased in children ages 11 years and younger. In fact, these hospitalization rates are the highest they have been since the start of the pandemic. The increases come as many schools across the country have resumed in-person learning.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Coronavirus Infections/prevention & Control COVID-19 Local Government Pandemics Public Health Public Health Practice
• Series:
  CDC COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review
• Document Type:
  Text
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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