politics it s driving they re ridiculous and ignorant interventions in the debate over vaccines. still, the rest of us should stick to getting our medical advice from medical experts. experts like doctor mark cline, professor of pediatrics and a physician in chief at the children s hospital of new orleans, doctor cline joins me now, you have treated far too many children for covid in the icu. how do you feel when you hear non-doctors minimize the covid threat to children? mattie, it breaks my heart. it s absurdly, and demonstrably false to say that babies and toddlers are not severely affected by covid. we ve seen thousands of children hospitalized across the united states. we ve seen nearly 500 deaths among children under five years of age alone. and so, to say that kids don t get sick from covid, they re not at any risk whatsoever, as a governor and senator are sad,
orleans, doctor cline joins me now, you have treated far too many children for covid in the icu. how do you feel when you hear non-doctors minimize the covid threat to children? mattie, it breaks my heart. it s absurdly, and demonstrably false to say that babies and toddlers are not severely affected by covid. we ve seen thousands of children hospitalized across the united states. we ve seen nearly 500 deaths among children under five years of age alone. and so, to say that kids don t get sick from covid, they re not at any risk whatsoever, as a governor and senator are sad, perpetuates a myth and is a denial of the lived experiences of thousands of families, virtually every health care professional in a major children s hospital in the u.s.. that math was bad enough in 2020, when we were new to all this, og covid if we want to call it that.
this. beyond all of the politics, and the protests, it s just begum conventional wisdom that schools being closed hurts kids mental health. we just all accepted the view of, people like liberal columnist who wrote this week, the damage to a generation of children social development and educational attainment, will be a recovery-able. damage from school closures, that is. breathless news headlines keep telling us, again and again, that kids being home, during the pandemic, has harm their mental health. so, they have to go back to school, no matter the covid threat. is that true? when ex guest, an expert s mental health and suicide. he works with the data. he saying something quite different from the conventional wisdom. joining me now, dr. tyler black. clinical assistant at the university of british columbia. thank you so much for joining me, this evening. you said, recently, something most people don t say. quote, the mental health impacts of the virus and, his consequences includi
i also have a heart condition that puts me at an increased risk for serious complications from covid. she went on to ask, does the face of chronic illness look different than you thought? her tweet has inspired hundreds of others with preexisting conditions to share their selfies. each one serving as a reminder that, for many, the covid threat is still very real. dr. sarah bernstein joins me now. thanks for coming on. tell us what inspired you to send this tweet in the first place. well, it was really difficult seeing the way the pandemic was directly impacting my patients and their families, and then having that be in direct conflict with what i was hearing on the news and the general feeling of people saying, you know, covid s over, this is no big deal, it s nothing more than a cold or a flu. and that really wasn t my experience. so my instinct and desire was to