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And now you just wrote in an op-ed something thats popping a lot of eyes but it was a point you had to make, doc. this is going nowhere. covid will be with us six months, 12 months, 18 months. yes? >> yeah. i mean its becoming endemic. thats the word that people use. i also put in there five strategies about how to sort of dance or coexist with this virus. weve been talking about them for some time. vaccinations. first of all, i got my vaccine card here. i think we need to have some way of actua...

Hospitalized nationally. currently here at childrens hospital new orleans we currently have 16 children in the hospital with a diagnosis of covid-19. 6 of those are in the pediatric intensive care unit. so this virus is not only more transmissable, more contagious than earlier variants of the virus, but we also seem to be seeing more severe disease in children. >> and are the symptoms that youre seeing in kids similar to what youve seen in adults? is there a difference? >> the symptoms are simil...

Variant is more dangerous in terms of how ill you become. what we do know about it is it is more transmissable. and kids together will get the illness. mostly -- kids will do okay, far better than the older population, but theyre a vector. and until all of us that can be vaccinated are, we have to stay safe and that means, yes, back to school because kids have suffered greatly from not being in school. but we cant surround them -- we can surround them by, every person who works in a school shoul...

Concerned about that ive not really considered but after hearing your concern or reading about it, im now concerned about it too. its not so much about the spread of the virus and the variants that exist. its that when you bring thousands of people together from hundreds of countries, more than 200 countries represented, there could be now the birth of new variants. explain that. what would happen here? >> thats a very real risk. we have seen it with the other variants. they are smart. when they...

Again this fall, unfortunately. the virus loves the dry, cold weather. were already seeing surges across the country, especially in areas of low vaccination rates. the delta variant is more transmissable. i dont think well necessarily see a lockdown, but i do think we need to maybe tie mask mandates to hospitalizations, cases or vaccination rates in areas. i think well see probably more of whats happening in l.a. county across the country this fall. >> all right. well leave it there. thank you, ...

Some point close to somebody else, there was able to be two transmissions of the virus as a result of that. something that we would sort of not really pay attention to, think wouldnt be a problem, there was just a brief sort of walk-by almost that actually resulted in a viral transmission. the point of that contact tracing study and that case report is that the delta variant is far more transmissable, we knew that. now it seems like its maybe three to four times more transmissable than that orig...

Delta vary yants which is far more transmissable? >> thats a great question. we have done a great job really encouraging our community staff and students with the vaccination. we hosted multiple vaccination events. we hosted nine events at local schools, at community hubs. we vaccinated over 3500 people. about 67% of our teachers are fully vaccinated right now which is in line with the national average. we look forward to making sure people have information and access to be able to make that pri...

And not to be complacent, especially as were seeing the delta variant, which is much more transmissable and pummelling unvaccinated communities spreading around the u.s. >> the u.s. always had a hard time mobilizing collective effort to undertake basic aspects of pandemic control, like testing trays and testing and quarantining. we were bad at that from the beginning. at this point that seems like were definitely not going back to that, so vaccination is really the key. what do we know about the...

Mixing together. and since then, you know, in recent months they have been, you know. and so i think just having a bunch of individuals who werent exposed to the virus the initial go-around have no immunity and are going out in public more, i think they are going to get it more. i think the other piece is the delta variant. its more transmissable. we think potentially worse for kids. then, yeah, the kids who havent been able to be vaccinated because of their age or who have just rolled into vacc...

Delta variant. >> kwloin say youre concerned. we know this idea of herd immunity is still something thats out there for our country. did that move the goal post? >> well, so we dont exactly know what the herd immunity percentage would be for covid-19. it would be different for the delta variant and higher, because it is more transmissable. so we will be continuing to watch that. but we know as you pointed out, that people who are vaccinated are protected against this delta variant. and theyre ex...