According to a new report from the American Association of Pediatrics nearly 100,000 children tested positive for coronavirus over the last two weeks of July, about one-third of all pediatric coronavirus cases in US.  In the US, there are 447 cases per 100,000 children.

While the Trump Administration and republican governors push for in-person classes starting the upcoming school year, the spike in cases among children offer a stark warning about the spread of the virus within that demographic and throughout their families.

Children made up 8.8% of all reported coronavirus cases overall, but in the initial burst of infections in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, only 3% of cases were children, demonstrating that as the virus spreads across the country, a higher percentage of children are infected.

From states reporting such data, up to 0.3% of pediatric cases of coronavirus ended with a fatality.

Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arizona, California and Illinois have all reported more than 15,000 cases of pediatric coronavirus.

The information contradicts the claim from President Trump that children are largely immune from the disease.  “This thing is going away, it will go away like things go away. My view is that schools should be open,” Trump said on Fox and Friends August 5th.  “If you look at children, children are almost, I would almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disease.”

The data come from 49 states, New York City, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam.