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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In a sign that the highly contagious Omicron variant is sparing no one, a new report shows that new COVID-19 cases among U.S. children spiked to a high of more than 580,000 for the week ending Jan. 6, a 78% increase from the week before. "Since many children remain unvaccinated — or are too young to be vaccinated — children are bearing a disproportionate burden of this illness," said Dr. Moira Szilagyi. She is president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which has been reporting new pediatric COVID cases every week. "These are challenging times," Szilagyi said. Since the start of the pandemic, nearly 8.5 million U.S. children have tested positive for COVID-19, and nearly 11% of those cases have occurred in the past two weeks,...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A new report offers hope on the lung cancer front: Patients are being diagnosed at an earlier stage in their disease and living longer due to better access to care, higher screening rates and improved treatments.And that is driving overall cancer rates down, researchers discovered.Still, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the country, according to the annual Cancer Statistics report conducted by the American Cancer Society and released Wednesday."We are pleased to see a continuous significant reduction in mortality in cancer overall, resulting from increased awareness, data-driven prevention strategies, and improvements in early detection and treatments," CEO Karen Knudsen said in an American Cancer Society news...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The record-breaking numbers surrounding the Omicron surge are dizzying, with so many Americans falling prey to the highly infectious COVID-19 variant.The United States reported more than 1.3 million COVID cases on Monday, the highest daily total recorded for any country in the world. The seven-day case average has tripled in two weeks, reaching more than 700,000 new infections every day.But that statistic may be less important than another record: That more than 142,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID, a number that's doubled in three weeks and itself represents another all-time high.Some public health experts are making the case that, when it comes to assessing the threat from the pandemic, COVID-related hospitalizations are...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Omicron surge may have peaked in Britain and could be about to do the same in the United States, experts report.That's because the COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa in mid-November is so contagious that the variant may already be running out of people to infect, the Associated Press reported.In Britain, government data show that reported new COVID-19 cases fell to about 140,000 a day in the last week, compared with more than 200,000 daily cases earlier this month.Meanwhile, a University of Washington model suggests the number of daily reported cases in the United States will top out at 1.2 million by Jan. 19 and then fall sharply, “simply because everybody who could be infected will be infected,” Ali Mokdad, a professor...