covid-19 in children

It’s not just adults who are getting COVID-19 and require medical treatment. Doctors say more and more kids are requiring trips to urgent care or the emergency room amid this COVID-19 surge. According to an NBC News analysis, Connecticut is one of nine states reporting a record number of COVID-related pediatric hospitalizations. On Tuesday, Yale New Haven Health reported 17…

It’s not just adults who are getting COVID-19 and require medical treatment. Doctors say more and more kids are requiring trips to urgent care or the emergency room amid this COVID-19 surge.

With recent plans announced to distribute masks and tests in schools, many Connecticut child care providers were left wondering when they might be able to get those supplies to better protect the very young kids in their care.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday encouraged parents to vaccinate their children, saying the approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 pediatric doses is a “giant step forward” out of the pandemic.

With coronavirus vaccines soon to be available to children ages 5 through 11, kids may not be as excited as their parents to get their shots. Whether it’s their COVID-19 vaccine or their other routine vaccinations, here’s how to help your child get through the stress of getting their shots.

The FDA announced Friday that it had authorized emergency use of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children ages 5-11.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb is a former FDA commissioner and currently sits on the board of Pfizer. He also lives in Connecticut and has an understanding of what’s going on where we live.

Vaccines, face masks, the delta variant, and reopening our schools – these are just some of the topics that have been on our minds as we continue to live through the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Scott Gottlieb sat down with NBC Connecticut’s Dan Corcoran to answer some of our biggest questions.

A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an “alarming” increase in obesity in U.S. children and teenagers.

Scottie B. Day, physician-in-chief at Kentucky Children’s Hospital, says that COVID-19 admissions are three times higher now than they were at the end of July and the majority of patients are unvaccinated. 

DeSantis often trumpets his hands-off policies in what he calls the “free state of Florida” and has referred to measures supported by the nation’s leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, as “Faucism,” a play on words on “fascism.”

With schools in some states opening this week as the COVID-19 delta variant surges across the country, many parents are understandably anxious. But there are things schools can do to reduce the risk to their students. Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at Duke University Hospital, explains four things schools can do to keep kids safe. (And yes, they...

New data shows the nearly 49,000 new cases of reported pediatric COVID-19 cases last week was the lowest weekly total since late October.

As COVID-19 vaccine trials begin for children, many parents may be understandably wary about signing their own child up as a subject. So we got Peter Pitts, a former FDA associate commissioner and president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, to break down how vaccine trials for children work and how researchers ensure they’re safe.

Even with vaccine distribution ramping up across the country, there is still good reason to remain on guard against the coronavirus. Infectious disease physician Dr. Dena Grayson flagged a troubling trend in children who catch COVID-19 — specifically a worrying rise in a dangerous multisystem inflammatory syndrome called MIS-C.