Maybe the kids aren't alright

 The CDC noted a rise in COVID-19 related hospitalizations in adolescents in March and April, and the agency’s leader is now urging parents to vaccinate their teenagers. 

“I am deeply concerned by the number of hospitalized adolescents and saddened to see the number of adolescents who required treatment in intensive care units or mechanical ventilation,“ CDC director Rochelle Walensky said. 

In the first three months of 2020, researchers discovered that almost one-third of all adolescent COVID-19 hospitalizations resulted in the need for intensive care and 5% needed invasive mechanical ventilation, NBC News reported. According to CDC data, no teenagers in the U.S. died from Jan. 1 to March 31 due to COVID-19. 

"Vaccination is our way out of this pandemic.  I continue to see promising signs in CDC data that we are nearing the end of this pandemic in this country; however, we all have to do our part and get vaccinated to cross the finish line,” Walensky said.

And this important flashback:

FLASHBACK MAY 15 2021: Covid-19 in Mumbai: In second wave, kids more symptomatic