Coronavirus case rates among Oregon children ages 9 and younger are slightly higher in September than for someone who is in their 60s, 70s, or is 80 and older – something that’s never been true before – according to an analysis of reported COVID-19 cases by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Young children remain far less likely to be infected than teens and most adults. And young children with infections remain incredibly unlikely to be hospitalized or to die, with two fatalities – both infants – out of more than the 18,000 confirmed or presumed infections identified by health officials since the start of the pandemic.