The Omicron variant continues to spread in the United States, where health officials in New York are seeing an increase in the number of children hospitalized in connection with Covid-19, while the White House on Sunday promised to quickly resolve the shortage of tests in the country.
The New York State Department of Health “Closely monitoring an upward trend in pediatric hospitalizations associated with Covid-19“, according to a statement released on Friday.
“Biggest increase in New York City with admissions that have quadrupled“between the week of December 5 and that of December 19, it is specified. Half of these admissions concern children under 5 years old, therefore who are not yet old enough to be vaccinated.
The number of Covid-19 cases in the United States continues to rise, with nearly 190,000 new cases daily over the past seven days on average, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
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