CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera June 4, 2024 17:08:00
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. ...