{"id":103016,"date":"2022-04-20T06:05:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=103016"},"modified":"2022-04-20T06:05:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:05:37","slug":"study-during-omicron-surge-hospitalization-rate-of-unvaxxed-children-twice-that-of-vaxxed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/04\/20\/study-during-omicron-surge-hospitalization-rate-of-unvaxxed-children-twice-that-of-vaxxed\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: During Omicron Surge, Hospitalization Rate of Unvaxxed Children Twice That of Vaxxed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON \u2014 <\/span>A U.S. study released Tuesday shows that during the surge of the COVID-19 omicron variant, hospitalization rates of unvaccinated children ages 5-11 were twice those of children who had received shots.<\/p>\n

The study by\u00a0the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0<\/a>looked at nearly 400 cases in 14 states between mid-December and late February.<\/p>\n

Among the 397 children who were hospitalized with COVID-19 during the omicron wave, 87% were unvaccinated, the study found.<\/p>\n

The average length of hospital stay for unvaccinated children was three days, compared with two days for vaccinated children with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The vaccinated children who were hospitalized did not require high degrees of breathing support such as nasal oxygen tubes or mechanical ventilation, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n

The omicron variant set records for coronavirus infections in the United States in January, causing more infections than the original SARS-CoV-2 strain of the virus and an increase in hospitalizations among those younger than 18.<\/p>\n

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine had been authorized by U.S regulators for children ages 5-11 before the omicron surge in October.<\/p>\n

During the omicron surge, unvaccinated children in the age group had a hospitalization rate 2.1 times higher than vaccinated children, according to the study.<\/p>\n

According to CDC data, only 28% of children between 5-11 are fully vaccinated, amounting to about 8 million nationwide.<\/p>\n

The study also found that hospitalization rates among children in the age group were higher during the omicron wave than during the delta wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON \u2014 A U.S. study released Tuesday shows that during the surge of the COVID-19 omicron variant, hospitalization rates of unvaccinated children ages 5-11 were twice those of children who had received shots. The study by\u00a0the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0looked at nearly 400 cases in 14 states between mid-December and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103019,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103016\/revisions\/103019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}