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Cases counted in kids in the week ending august 5th, calling it a substantial increase from a week before. chief physician, dr. mark klein, says it is disorienting and unnecessary to see so many children suffer from the virus. >> our ticket out of this is vaccination, vaccination of every eligible adult, every eligible adolescent. >> your mom and dad are worried about you. >> reporter: for nelson and his parents, his family is reconsidering getting vaccinated. until now, didn't want to get the shot because they weren't sick, although he is on the road to recovery, they say seeing their son fig...

More likely to be getting severely illinois in you become infective. i think the data has become pretty clear on this. why didn't they anticipate this? part of it is what they didn't know. but we talk about this term herd immunity. part of the herd immunity was to say we know not everyone's going to get protected. if we get enough protection we can essentially form a herd of protection around those who are vulnerable. when you get to that point in the country, and that's why we're having this discussion now. >> when it comes to kids, how concerned are you that 494,000 new covid cases in childr...

Infected. we talk about herd immunity. was to say we know not everybody -- i think the data has become pretty clear on this. why didn't they anticipate this? part of it is what they didn't know. but we talk about this term herd immunity. part of the herd immunity was to say we know not everyone's going to get protected. if we get enough protection we can essentially form a herd of protection around those who are vulnerable. when you get to that point in the country, and that's why we're having this discussion now. >> when it comes to kids, how concerned are you that 494,000 new covid cases in ...

>> yeah, just like meningococcal vaccinations, which is an essential vaccine to prevent meningitis. and this should be on the list. the problem, anderson, is that vaccine policy is often not set at the federal level. as far as i know, there are limits to what the president can authorize and do. and this is done at the state level. and there's a lot of heterogeneity among the states. in terms of what they're willing to do. in texas where we have a very aggressive anti-vaccine lobby that lobbies the state legislature, we have our own anti-vaccine political action committee, as extraordinary as t...

Factor and i know the worry factor, for me, the vaccine is a way to go. >> in terms of the myocarditis from the vaccine, is a treatable? doesn't last long? >> it only lasts a week or to, and it is treatable with nonsteroidal's and it gets better almost 100 percent of the time. even hospitalizations which are very rare are usually very brief. i talked to a pediatric cardiologist about this he said no-brainer, it's way worse from covid itself. >> lets put a couple things on the screen the covid cases among children in the last week, it wasn't last week, it was the week before from july 29 throug...