COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US

February 01, 2023

The study indicates that pharmaceutical and public health interventions remain important to protect children and young people against COVID-19. The leading cause of death (perinatal conditions) had an overall death rate of 12.7 per 100,000; COVID-19 ranked ahead of influenza and pneumonia, which together had a death rate of 0.6 per 100,000. Like many diseases, COVID-19 death rates followed a U-shaped pattern across this age-range. Nevertheless, in the pre-Delta period of the pandemic, COVID-19 still ranked as the ninth leading cause of death overall. Compared with other age-groups, the overall risk of death from COVID-19 was substantially lower in children and young people.

The source of this news is from University of Oxford