COVID-19 cases in children are up 84 percent in the past week, with 72,000 kids testing positive for the virus, a new study from the American Academy of Pediatrics [AAP] reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new infections were recorded in the seven days leading up to July 29, up from 39,0000 the week prior, according to the AAP report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AAP said it had teamed up with Children\u2019s Hospitals of America to help collect and share data about pediatric cases of the virus, which have been only 14.3 percent of the total cumulative cases, the study says<\/a>. That share rose to 19 percent for the week ending July 29. Since the pandemic began, 4.2 million children have tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s high and considering the fact that we are vaccinated now, what that\u2019s telling us is that unvaccinated people are getting infected in higher numbers because the virus is more infectious with the Delta variant,\u201d Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, chief of the division of infectious diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine and chair of the AAP committee on infectious diseases, told CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n