COVID-19 is the eighth main explanation for demise amongst kids within the U.S. : NPR

Fifth-graders sporting face masks sit at correct social distancing throughout a music class on the Milton Elementary College in Rye, N.Y., Could 18, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered school rooms set again studying in some U.S. college methods by greater than a yr, with kids in high-poverty areas affected essentially the most, in response to information shared with The Related Press.

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Fifth-graders sporting face masks sit at correct social distancing throughout a music class on the Milton Elementary College in Rye, N.Y., Could 18, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered school rooms set again studying in some U.S. college methods by greater than a yr, with kids in high-poverty areas affected essentially the most, in response to information shared with The Related Press.

Mary Altaffer/AP

COVID-19 was the eighth main explanation for demise amongst kids in current months, in response to a research printed Monday.

In a yearlong interval from August 2021 to July 2022, 821 kids ages 0 to 19 died from COVID-19 at a charge of 1 per 100,000. Kids’s deaths of any form are uncommon, researchers famous.

COVID-19 ranked fifth in non-disease-related deaths and first in infectious or respiratory sickness deaths, overtaking the flu and pneumonia.

Earlier than the pandemic, in 2019, the main causes of demise amongst kids have been perinatal circumstances, unintentional accidents, beginning defects, assault, suicide, cancerous tumors, coronary heart illness and influenza and pneumonia.

The time interval researchers analyzed coincided with the rise of Delta and Omicron COVID-19 circumstances. They discovered that learning different 12-month durations in the course of the pandemic didn’t change the outcomes.

Researchers famous their outcomes have been restricted by the underreporting of COVID-19 circumstances, and the exclusion of deaths the place COVID-19 may have been a contributing or amplifying consider tandem with different circumstances, reminiscent of influenza.