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Likely the pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 could come as soon as halloween. >> weve had 225,000 kids with covid. its a serious issue among children and the best way to protect them is with this vaccine. >> reporter: many hospitals seeing an increased number of children infected with covid-19. doctors had to put up a tent outside an emergency room of a childrens hospital in pittsburgh to help meet demand of patients. the hospitals chief of emergency medicine writing on social media, the ...

Really concerned about is what the impressionable continue to be beyond children. weve seen a huge surge in covid among kids around the summer. and kids handing up in hospitals and icus. this is very much being driven by the emergence of the delta variant. and if kids dont get vaccinated, they will remain very much at risk. especially as they head back into the classroom and our risk of transmitting to one another. >> you mentioned that frates, emergency use authorization, doctor, and while ther...

>> this really is a tragic milestone. we keep hearing of cases where icus are overwhelmed, to capacity, and were still struggling to get people vaccinated. president biden is committed to getting 70% of the world vaccinated. hes going to be having a virtual summit at the white house on wednesday where hes going to be talking to global leaders about how they can get more people around the globe vaccinated, and he is pushing for this booster shot, which the world health organization has criticized...

Children, perhaps close to halloween. next steps, pfizer and its partner, biontech, will apply to the fda in coming days to get their vaccine authorized for use in children. the "new york times" underscoring the urgent need for a safe and effective vaccine for kids asap writing this, quote, children now account for one in five new cases, when the highly contagious delta variant has sent more children into hospitals and icus in the past few weeks than at any time other time in the pandemic. its c...

People still havent had their first shot. cnn has the extreme pressure that some hospitals are facing due to a surge in the covid unvaccinated. >> reporter: idaho, one of the least vaccinated states is facing a dire development. hospitals there overwhelmed with a number of covid patients, so much so, medical officials activated crisis standards of care. and will now ration treatment, if needed. >> our icus are not only full, theyre overflowing. the vast majority of our patients in our intensive ...

Considering that now people who are suffering from routine medical ailments are struggling to get care because icus and hospitals are overwhelmed. whats your perspective on that, on perhaps limiting the amount of unvaccinated care to help others who may need it? >> look, im very concerned about those who delay or those who avoid care or those who cant get care because of the surgeon hospitals treating those with coronavirus but never can we allow the decision not to get vaccinated to become a ba...

Overwhelming surges and places had to call in refrigerated trucks because they couldnt keep up with people that were dying unfortunately. the only sad part is that now this is largely preventable through vaccination. there are some people that call it fear mongering, but i will take the other argument and say it is not fear mongering if hospitals and people in icus are fearful that more patients will come in with covid-19. i think this is stark reality and that encourages people to get vaccinate...

Fact that theyve run out of beds. what are your thoughts about where we are going as hospitals are rationing care? >> this is also very sad to see. my institution like many others, early on in the pandemic last year put together our own crisis of care standards. luckily, we didnt have to use them. we are not approaching that now. i didnt expect we would be here at this point, and largely again reflects undervaccination in areas experiencing high capacity in the icu. you mention open beds. one th...

The availability of free monoclonal antibody treatment appears to be helping reduce...

Sending patients to washington state and beyond. cnns jason carroll has the story. >> reporter: idaho, one of the least vaccinated states, is facing a dire development. hospitals there are overwe canned with the number of covid patients, so much so, medical officials activated crisis standards of care and will now ration treatment if needed. >> our icus are not only full. theyre overflowing. the vast majority of our patients in our intensive care units are covid positive. 98% of them are unvacci...