Covid totals by state6/11/2023 However, given the decreasing access and reliability of data on the number of child COVID-19 infections, this weekly report was sunset May 11, 2023. We will continue to monitor COVID-19 with indicators that are available. As the end of the PHE approached, these trends intensified, and many states announced their posts were ending. In 2023 an increasing number of states reduced the frequency of reporting and updating cases. Beginning in 2022, as home COVID-19 tests became widely available, an increasing portion of COVID-19 cases were likely unreported. The data in the report have always been limited by variations in how states categorized and reported COVID-19 cases. Over the past three years this report has provided a unique and valued resource to understand the impact of COVID-19 on children, and to understand trends in volume of cases and geography as COVID-19 variants emerged. By compiling this information we could track the number of child cases weekly, as well as provide publicly reported case numbers for children at the state level. Thus, we turned to data provided by states and territories and began to collect information from their web sites for the most current pediatric data. The CDC had begun providing national data on COVID-19 cases, but timely, regular data on pediatric cases were not available. The report was created in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic to measure how COVID-19 was affecting children in the United States. On May 11, 2023, the United States ended the Public Health Emergency (PHE) that was declared over three years ago to organize government resources and establish policies needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.Īfter three years of weekly reporting on the number of child COVID-19 cases in the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) will be sunsetting the weekly state COVID-19 reports.
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