During the 2018-19 flu season, 21,012 of the 53.6 million children aged 5-17 in the United States required hospitalization because of the flu. That equates to a hospitalization rate of 39.2 per 100,000. COVID-19, meanwhile, has resulted in the hospitalization of 5.8 per 100,000 children aged 5-17.

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