december 5th and 19th. to be clear, a few hundred per week. that is a sliver of overall hospitalizations. it is not a huge number, but if it is your child, it is everything. i wonder if you can help explain that to us and how we should understand that. a four-fold increase in a matter of two weeks. >> omicron is extraordinarily infe infectious. the biggest swath of unvaccinated people in the country are children. particularly children under 5, all of whom, are unprotected. you would expect this virus would infect children and if it infects children in large numbers, a small number will be hospitalized. if the denominator is quite large, we will see an increase in pediatric hospitalizations. thankfully, covid has largely spared our children. not entirely spared our