The CDC study says increasing vaccination coverage among children, especially among ethnic and minority groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19, is critical to preventing the disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday that unvaccinated children ages 5 to 11 were twice as likely to be hospitalized after COVID-19 as vaccinated children during a winter spike in infections with the Omicron strain. Between mid-December and the end of February, 19.1 out of every 100,000 unvaccinated children in that age group were hospitalized after being diagnosed with COVID-19, while 9.2 out of every 100,000 vaccinated children in that age group were hospitalized after diagnosis, the data showed. The study is the latest evidence that even if existing vaccines are less protective against Omicron, vaccination against COVID-19 still largely protects children in this age group from hospitalization. About one-fifth of unvaccinated children who contracted COVID-19 ended up in the ICU According to foreign media reports, the CDC reported data from the United States 14 states hospitals, according to the report, to be involved in the hospital, the CDC researched about 400 children hospitalized in the new champions league, with nearly 90% of the people without vaccination, about a third of the children do not have the health conditions of vaccination, about one 5 of the children has been admitted to the intensive care unit. The CDC also said that the omicron strain did not appear to cause as severe illness in children as the Delta strain did in adults, but that it was highly contagious and infected many children, with higher rates of hospitalization during the spike in omicron infections. Vaccination rates in the 5-11 age group in the US are the lowest of all age groups. Infected children are much less likely to become seriously ill than adults. But overall, children are less protected from the virus than adults because the younger age group, under 5, is not yet eligible for the vaccine and older children are poorly vaccinated. The racial gap in vaccinating children is stark, with Afric An-Americans accounting for a third of the unvaccinated The report also provides the strongest evidence to date that racial disparities in childhood vaccinations may be making African American children more vulnerable to COVID-19 and severe diseases, it added. Due to poverty and other factors, the vaccination rate of African-American children aged 5-11 in the United States is low. According to the study, African-Americans in the 5 to 11 age group accounted for about one-third of all unvaccinated children infected with COVID-19, the highest number of all ethnic groups, and accounted for about one-third of all COVID-19 hospitalizations in that age group. U.S. Census data estimate that starting in 2020, African-American children will make up about 14 percent of U.S. residents in the 5 – to 11-year-old age group. But it is unclear whether the areas covered by the CDC study represent the entire population of the country, making it difficult to measure the gap precisely. The CDC study says increasing vaccination coverage among children, especially among ethnic and minority groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19, is critical to preventing the disease. Washington, D.C., and seven other states reported racial data for vaccinated children ages 5 to 11. An analysis this month by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that most African-American children in those states have lower vaccination rates than white children. Asian children are reported to have the highest vaccination rates, while Latino children have similar rates to white children. Among all U.S. residents, African-Americans remain less likely to be vaccinated than whites, and only about one-third of children in the 5 – to 11-year-old age group have received at least one shot, the lowest rate of any age group. The rate of vaccination in this age group has slowed significantly in recent weeks. Children can wear a standard KN95 mask

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