Virus Firestorm News Today

Opening schools. i think its going to be really challenging to open schools in this kind of virus blizzard, this virus firestorm. i have advised places like washington, d.c. and new york if you can hold it off a couple of weeks, recognizing that thats really difficult given all the schools that kids have missed, maybe make it up on the pack end or shortened vacations in the summer, that might be one way to go. i think its going to be really challenging when you have a virus agent thats looking l...

Co-director of the center for vaccine development. dr. hotez, you saw miguels piece from texas childrens with those heartbreaking stories from your colleagues about patients there. how are hospital staff dealing with this wave thats hitting kids so especially hard? >> yeah, well, we got a hint of it over the summer with delta, which was more transmissible than previous lineages but this is by far, the king of transmissible covid viruses. so were seeing unprecedented nu numbers of kids getting in...