The report was created in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic to measure how COVID-19 was affecting children in the United States. On May 11, 2023, the United States ended the Public Health Emergency (PHE) that was declared over three years ago to organize government resources and establish policies needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.Īfter three years of weekly reporting on the number of child COVID-19 cases in the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) will be sunsetting the weekly state COVID-19 reports.