The number of children in the US who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus floored me

[Andy Meek]

• The American Academy of Pediatrics has provided a coronavirus update showing how many children have been diagnosed in the US with COVID-19 so far during the coronavirus pandemic.
• That number of infected children now stands at 513,415.
• While children seem to be spared the worst outcomes associated with the COVID-19 virus, they can still spread it to people like vulnerable family members.

Every daily coronavirus update we get is a reminder that we're still living in a pandemic, that our normal lives have been put on pause, and that we're still paying a terrible price as a result of the COVID-19 virus that's resulted in more than 6.3 million confirmed infections thus far in the US. That's according to the latest data we have from Johns Hopkins University.

Whenever we talk about metrics like that, including the fact that more than 189,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus have been reported in the US, as awful as that is it still doesn't even convey the full breadth of the pandemic's impact. For example, the financial toll of the virus is probably incalculable, including as it does everything from the tens of millions of newly unemployed workers in the US to the lost business from risk-averse consumers too afraid to do things like get on a plane, go see a movie, or eat inside a restaurant. Meanwhile, the American Academy of Pediatrics has just released yet another data point conveying the scope of the pandemic so far -- according to a new report from the group, more than half a million children in the US have been diagnosed with the coronavirus thus far.

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