CDC Director 'Deeply Concerned' By Teen COVID-19 Hospitalization Rate

The agency’s weekly, released Friday, showed a rising rate of hospitalization for COVID-19 patients in the 12-to-17-year-old range, possibly driven by more transmissible variants and the return to in-person schooling.

“I am deeply concerned by the numbers of hospitalized adolescents and saddened to see the number of adolescents who required treatment in intensive care units or mechanical ventilation,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday.Most COVID-19 hospitalizations occur in older adults. Yet between March and April, adolescent hospitalization rose from 0.6 cases per 100,000 to 1.3 cases per 100,000.

“I ask parents, relatives and close friends to join me and talk with teens about the importance of these prevention strategies and to encourage them to get vaccinated,” she said. “Vaccination is our way out of this pandemic.” The report noted that transmission “occurs more easily” in high schools compared to elementary schools, particularly among kids participating in extracurricular activities.

In May, the CDC approved the Pfizer vaccine for use in people age 12 and up; the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson drugs are currently approved for those age 18 and up.

Hogwash just trying to get the kids to get the vaccine though they are not at risk!

They don’t die, send the vaccines to everywhere war is about to break out.

Is she? Is she really? CDCDirector wasn't concerned enough to tell anyone about this until it suited her purposes even though it's been going on all year. She didn't weigh in when KateBrownForOR signed an executive order in April forcing schools open.

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