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Just seeing more kids now. i mean we all, you know, a year ago believed that kids were pretty resistant to covid, but i want to play for you what that doctor is saying he is seeing now in the hospital. we re seeing children as young as a few days that have covid up to teenagers. some of them need breathing tubes and some of them even just putting the breathing tubes this is not enough. i mean he s gone on to say that we re seeing twice the amount of children hospitalized than we did during the original surge. does that change the equation? you know, i think that we have seen still with delta in the uk, in other locations that kids are not getting more seriously ill. of course, when they have more cases you are going to see more kids and some kids tragically do get very sick with covid. however, the best thing we can do to protect kids is to vaccinate adults. ....
Rouge. doctor, it s particularly painful to talk about children being hospitalized with covid. you say some of these children need breathing tubes? tell us more about what you re seeing and the severity of illness. yeah. we ve seen about a 5 to six-fold increase in the number of covid positive patients. that s led to a number of patients being hospitalized. what we re seeing is the children about 50% of them will need to be in the intensive care unit. they need breathing support, whether or not that s oxygen, extra pressure. sometimes even wreabreathing tu. we know children die from covid. when you talk about it like half of them having to be in the icu for care, just how young are these patients, and are there any commonalities in the cases? what we re seeing is we ll see children who are just ....
Eve of school bells ushering in a return to the classroom, hospitals warn kids are far from immune to covid. spreading so quickly. the numbers are going up dramatically. reporter: in louisiana, at our lady of the lake s children s hospital in baton rouge said they just had one of their worst weeks since the beginning of the pandemic. at least 62 school-aged kid were hospitalized there in july alone compared to just 18 in june. about half of those have been in the intensive care unit requiring breathing tubes and mechanical ventilation. reporter: in northern california, a bay-area school district is already reporting 15 cases of covid among staff and students after just three days back to school. i think they are going to shut down again. reporter: still, the risk to children remains comparatively low. since the start of the pandemic kids have accounted for.02 of all stats. with the delta variant spiking right at the start of the school anxiety for parents is at an all-time ....
Requiring breathing tubes and extra oxygen and they re attributing this to the delta variant. what should parents do right now, dr. ryaner? so, first thing i would remind everybody is that every state, every state in the united states requires vaccinations for school aged children. and we can t vaccinate kids who are 12 and under but we can vaccinate children who are 12 and over, every child 12 and over should be vaccinated. for kids that can t be vaccinated, they need to go to school wearing masks. every child in school needs to wear a mask and even if you re over 12 and you re vaccinated, we don t have an about tyabilitw who is vaccinated and unvaccinated and the data from the cdc this week shows the vaccinated can transmit the virus. so if we re going to open schools safely, every child attending a school in the united states and every teacher in the school and every staff member in the school needs to be wearing a mask. ....
Asia is nothing new tigers, along with other animals have been traded dead or alive to neighbouring countries in what is a lucrative, if illegal, business. the authorities have been intercepting the banned wildlife shipments, but closing down the ruthless gangs behind it is a more difficult proposition. the smuggling of the monkeys was a carefully planned operation. a pick up truck was eventually intercepted at a checkpoint and taken to a field hospital equipped with ultrasound scanners and breathing tubes. the driver of the truck says he didn t know the animals were in the back of the vehicle. he s being detained and questioned about wildlife smuggling. russell trott, bbc news. here, downing street has confirmed that prime minister boris johnson has married his fiancee carrie symonds in a secret ceremony at westminster cathedral. the wedding was held in front of close friends and family yesterday ....