Health & Fitness
CDC Seeing Increase In Adolescents Hospitalized With COVID-19
"Adolescents get sick. 30 percent of the adolescents that were hospitalized had no underlying risk factors."
June 9, 2021
Health experts are urging families to vaccinate their teenagers after a new report from the CDC showed an increase in the number of adolescents hospitalized for COVID-19 in March and April.
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Nearly one-third of the 12 to 17-year-olds required ICU admission.
“Adolescents get infected,” said Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, Chief of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Health and a professor at UT Southwestern. “Adolescents get sick. 30 percent of the adolescents that were hospitalized had no underlying risk factors.”
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