An Ignoble Experiment: CDC study suggests 3 in 4 children have had COVID-19 infections

TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE

May 01, 2022

FILE - Boxes of KN95 protective masks are stacked together before being distributed to students at Camden High School in Camden, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

CDC study suggests 3 in 4 children have had COVID-19 infections

Three out of every four U.S. children have been infected with the coronavirus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers estimated in a report. More »

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People gather at a bar in Rome, Sunday, May 1, 2022. Face masks, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, are no longer required in supermarkets, bars, restaurants, shops and most workplaces throughout Italy, but remain mandatory on public transport, planes, trains and ships, theatres, cinemas, concert halls and for indoor sporting events. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Freeport, N.Y.: Dr. Twana Jackson prepares pediatric doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine as the Mount Sinai South Nassau Vaxmobile vists Freeport High School in Freeport, New York on November 30, 2021. (Photo by Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

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A 7 year-old child holds a sticker she received after getting the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Child Health Associates office in Novi, Michigan on November 3, 2021. - An expert panel unanimously recommended Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid vaccine for five- to 11-year-olds on November 2, the penultimate step in the process that will allow injections in young children to begin this week in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the top US public health agency, was expected to endorse that recommendation later in the day. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

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