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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...

Getting the vaccines right now and that's a very good sign. >> let's hope that continues. thanks so much, mayor steve adler in austin, texas. >> and the new concerns for children with dr. mark klein at children's hospital and zeke emanuel at the university of pennsylvania and a member of president biden's covid-19 advisory board during the transition. dr. klein, first to you, you have 17 children, i'm told, and maybe the numbers changed today hospitalized in portland, at least 12 children under the age of 12. we are hearing of children on ventilators and how much worse is this latest wave wher...

Kids are definitely sicker than they have been. >> reporter: the surge of covid-19 cases across the country is alarming. american academy of pediatrics says there has been almost 94,000 reported cases counted in kids and the week ending august 5, 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 suffering from the virus. >> our ticket out of this is vaccination. vaccination of every eligible adult, of every eligible adolescent. >> your mom and dad are really worried about you. the doctors here ar...

Mrna boosters to people who have -- are immunocompromised because they're transplant patients. about 2% had made enough antibodies and after three shots over 70% had made enough antibodies. i am pretty sure and i don't want to second guess that they'll recommend vaccinating immunocompromised people and that includes cancer patients and other people on immune-suppressant drugs. the whole population is probably not a good idea. >> and do we have enough supply right now? >> supply is not our problem. both pfizer and moderna are turning out enough millions and millions of doses a day, and we're on...

See that as few children as possible are infected with this virus. and the way to do that, our ticket out of this, is vaccination. vaccination of every eligible adult, of every eligible adolescent. >> reporter: you know, there are 18 kids in the pediatric ward. thousands of others, he said, that probably have mild cases. so those that are in the hospital are just the tip of the iceberg. the biggest fear for dr. klein is widespread community transmission. a month ago, they only had 1% of children testing positive for covid-19. two weeks ago that figure rose to 7% and today 20% of those children...