Surveillance data continue to show that COVID-19 hospitalizations among young children increased fivefold during the omicron wave of SARS-CoV-2 compared with the peak of the delta wave, researchers reported in MMWR.
According to the COVID-NET Surveillance Network, from Dec. 19 to Feb. 19, weekly COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates per 100,000 infants and children aged 0 to 4 years peaked at 14.5 during the week ending Jan. 8 — about five times the rate during the delta wave from June 27 to Dec. 18.
Additionally, monthly ICU admission rates were approximately 3.5 times as high during