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I want to bring in dr. rochelle walensky, the director of the centers for disease control and prevention. thank you, doctor, for taking the time. children hospitals are telling us this is the equivalent of what health care facilities were experiencing when covid first hit and they were so overwhelmed, so stressed, only these are facilities focused on children. administrators at minnesota's children's hospital are telling us they're running out of the icu beds. take a listen. >> we're seeing the biggest surge of winter time respiratory illness we have ever seen going back. our number of admissi...

- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. is -- a triple demic is putting a strain on hospitals across the nation. the flu, rsv, covid hitting at the same time. rsv rates are roughly 10 times higher than this point in the season. so bad, in fact, children health leaders have called on the federal government to declare an important and support hospitals. to make opt matters worse we're seeing a shortage of antibiotics used to treat these viruses.

Go out if you're sick, wash your hands, wear a mask. if you are sick present to your clinicians so you can get the anti antivirals you need. >> why isn't the health care industry better equipped to handle the level they're seeing, even if it is earlier than expected? >> yeah, so we have done a lot to foster improved and increased capabilities in our health care systems. it is also the case that, you know, these every year during respiratory virus season we see the peaks and the challenges in the health care system. it's also the case that right now, the viruses that are impacting children more...

Get exposed to rsv. so we have several years of children who have never seen rsv before. and because of that, we have these layers and more children who are requiring hospitalization than we see generally in a given season. >> you had said this may be an early peak. and we all hope that's the case. it's going to start coming down. i think the fear is this is not the peak yet. and it's already this bad. how much worse could it get? in the past we've seen covid cases spike a couple weeks after holiday gatherings, for example. do you expect a post holiday surge this time? whether it's covid, rsv,...