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South. and the risk of hospitalization once a child is infected has not really changed that much. i think people would be surprised to recognize that only about 50 to 60 kids have been hospitalized in the entire northeast region this past week in terms of the hospital census. so this has been very localized. you ll see at children s hospitals, because kids centralize there, you ll see a few kids in the icu, on ventilators, and certainly you ll see deaths from time to time. that s reason enough to vaccinate kids. but i think we have to be careful not to overstate how much severe disease we re seeing in kids. it s still a lower risk for kids. as you said, you ve got more kids circulating. before they were sort of isolated because we were in quarantine. now they re out and about and they re among people who are not vaccinated and who may have covid, understood. so let s talk quickly about masks in schools. florida s governor put some legislation in place disallowing ....
Children mixing in casual gatherings with unvaccinated and vaccinated adults, in areas with low vaccination rates, we re seeing a lot more kids getting infected. but when you actually look at the hospitalizations, they ve been very concentrated in the south. and the risk of hospitalization once a child is infected has not really changed that much. i think people would be surprised to recognize that only about 50 to 60 kids have been hospitalized in the entire northeast region this past week in terms of the hospital census. so this has been very localized. you ll see at children s hospitals, because kids centralize there, you ll see a few kids in the icu, on ventilators, and certainly you ll see deaths from time to time. that s reason enough to vaccinate kids. but i think we have to be careful not to overstate how much severe disease we re seeing in kids. it s still a lower risk for kids. as you said, you ve got more kids circulating. before they were sort of isolated because we were ....