Non-profit Mississippi News A new report has revealed that Mississippi’s children have more COVID-19 than any other state. This report shows Mississippi has one the highest COVID-19 rates in the United States. It is linked to increased community spread and tracking with the high state’s overall infection rate. READ MORE: Gov. Tate Reeves takes expert advice and delays school for only 7% of Mississippi students. Governor. After Tate Reeves granted most schools permission to resume as planned this month, Thomas Dobbs, the State Health Officer, reiterated that community spread is a major indicator of cases among children. He also stated that Mississippians must adhere to social distancing, masking and avoid large gatherings in order to ensure schools reopen successfully. He said Monday that if we are diligent about this, it will make it more likely that we have a successful school opening if there is less coronavirus within the community. There have been 34 cases of school reopenings as of Monday — 19 students and 15 employees. Dobbs’ sentiments were repeated by Reeves this week. He said Mississippi was at a critical point to stop the spread of the virus and that the average number has begun to fall. Although the number of daily cases has fallen below 1,000 since mid-July for the first, testing in Mississippi has been declining. The state currently has a 19% testing positivity rate on a rolling weekly basis. Reeves disputes the positivity rate and says that not all clinics report negative results. To analyze the positivity rate, it is important to know the exact number of tests performed and when they were done. However, this information is not available in reports from public health departments. Despite this, Mississippi’s daily case rates are among the highest in the country. Mississippi also has the fifth highest number of cases per 100,000 children. This is behind Arizona, South Carolina and Tennessee, but it is still the most populous state. In the United States, there are 447 cases per 100,000 children. This week’s American Academy of Pediatrics/Child’s Hospital Association report shows that children are more affected than previously thought. Another measure of the coronavirus burden in Mississippi is their share of total infections. This is not just per capita. Mississippi has 10% more COVID-19 cases than the national average, compared to 9% nationwide. The number of cases among children under 18 years old has more than doubled over the past month. They now account for the fastest-growing age group in terms of total cases. The American Academy of Pediatrics says that although children are less likely to get the virus, there is not much evidence to suggest that they will spread it. Although older children may contract the disease and spread it similarly to adults, this is not true for younger children. Recent research has shown that young children may have more of the disease than previously thought._x000D