COVID-19 cases among children in America are continuing to fall as the Delta-fueled summer surge reaches its end.
Data from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) show that 148,222 children tested positive for Covid during the week that ended on October 7.
That is a 14 percent decrease from the 173,469 who contracted the virus the previous week and a 40 percent decline from the record-high of 251,781 the week that ended September 2.
Cases among kids have now decreased for five consecutive weeks.
Last week was the first week since early August in which weekly Covid cases among under-18s dropped below 150,000 in a single week.
COVID-19 cases among children decreased by 14% last week to 148,222 (above). It is the fifth consecutive week that cases among children have fallen, and the lowest point cases have reached since early August
Children now make up just under one out of every four Covid cases in the United States (above)
Covid deaths among children remain consistent, though, with 22 children succumbing to the virus last week - equal to the week before.
While the raw number of cases among children falls, so does the share of total cases that they make up.
Last week, children made up 24.8 percent of active Covid cases, a low since August 12 and drop from the 26.7 percent of cases they accounted for the week prior.
Just over 16 percent of overall cases during the pandemic have been detected among children.
A majority of these cases have been clustered in the South, though the Covid-plagued region has seen youth cases drastically fall in recent weeks.
The South still accounts for more youth Covid cases than any other region, though cases have dropped by 60% over the last month, accounting for most of the overall decrease
COVID-19 cases in children rarely result in serious infection or death, with minors accounting for 2.5% of hospitalizations and less than 1% of deaths due to the virus (file photo)
The AAP reports that around 50,000 youth Covid cases were detected in the South last week, the most of any geographical region.
It is still far from where the region was only a month ago, with around 135,000 cases being
