Overview: nearly 72 million American kids test positive in past week. A

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Thu, 2021-08-05 11:22 — mike kraft

Moderna reports vaccine 93% effective after 6 months; Nearly 72K children test positive over past week: COVID-19 updates Children's vulnerability to the virus and its variants are evident as nearly 72K kids have tested positive for the virus. The latest COVID-19 updates. Steven Vargas, Elinor Aspegren and Ryan W. Miller USA TODAY

As the school year approaches in most of the country, there's increasing evidence — both numerical and anecdotal — of children's vulnerability to the coronavirus and its highly transmissible delta variant.

The American Academy of Pediatrics said as of July 29, almost 4.2 million children have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began, nearly 72,000 of them in the last week. That's almost twice as many as the 39,000 infections from the previous week. For perspective, about 79,000 Americans of all ages tested positive in a week of late June.

Two children with COVID-19 died over the weekend at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. ...

Other developments include:

► Almost 500 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to the massive gathering of Milwaukee Bucks fans celebrating the NBA championship win in the Deer District last month, health officials in Wisconsin said.

►Olympic host city Tokyo again broke its record for new COVID-19 cases, logging 5,042 new cases Thursday.

►Nearly all foreign visitors will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before entering the U.S., according to a plan the Biden administration is working on, The Associated Press reported.

►Officials in Los Angeles are considering a proposal that would require people to show proof they've been vaccinated to enter restaurants, museums, gyms and other public spaces, following in the footsteps of New York City, which became the first in the country to require proof of the COVID-19 vaccine to enter many indoor public spaces this week.

►Texas state health officials say new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state are showing steeper jumps than past surges in the pandemic. In a video conference Wednesday, a spokesman for the Department of State Health Services said the rolling seven-day average of new virus infections cases has increased 92% from last week, while hospitalizations rose 49% and deaths from COVID-19 grew by 15%. ...

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