Hospitalizations of Children Dropped During COVID-19 Pandemic: Study

An 11-year-old girl watches as a nurse prepares a syringe with a dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York City on Nov. 3, 2021. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo

Hospitalizations among children during the COVID-19 pandemic declined, according to a study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but those who were hospitalized were mostly there due to the coronavirus.

The study looked at children up to the age of 17 years, splitting them into three age groups: 0 to 4, 5 to 11, and 12 to 17.