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Children. we actually lost a 2-year-old child to covid on the night of the hurricane, which was very -- a very sad event obviously for everyone. >> oh, that is just heartbreaking. dr. mark kline, thank you for sharing with us. wishing you the best of luck and strength as you continue forward. >> thank you, ana. one day after dr. fauci defended covid booster shots, we are learning the white house may have to scale back its plan to administer them. what is going on here? and while we're talking vaccines, the president says the folks who haven't gotten the shot aren't helping the nation's eco...

Measures. masks are safe, masks work. the vaccines are probably as safe and effective as any vaccines ever developed for any disease. these are not issues of personal freedom. they're issues of public safety, and we have to start looking at them as such and recognizing that we're all at risk if even one person decides that they're not going to either mask up or vaccinate. >> yeah. it is shocking to me that people are still insisting on making that choice that is making other people including kids sick. it is shocking that's where we are, but that's where we are. dr. mark kline, thank you for a...

Dr. Mark Kline, Physician-in-Chief of Children's Hospital New Orleans, tells Jonathan Capehart that his "staff is exhausted" due to a surge of children infected with Covid-19 and "the last thing in the world that we need right now is a category four storm."

Just 40.9% of residents are fully vaccinated. a new record for covid deaths was recently set. one death recently was a baby less than a year old. it was the first time in six months that a child had died from covid in louisiana. since the pandemic began, 11 children under the age of 18 have died from covid. and right now about 31% of new covid cases in louisiana are among children younger than 18. the picture, across the united states, is just as bad. across the country more than 100,000 people are hospitalized for covid-19, the highest number since january. daily covid deaths have increased b...

Impacting children across the age range. in our own hospital we are seeing children as young as seven or a nine weeks hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care. and those cases are entirely preventable if we do what we need to do, which is to mask up, distance, and above all, vaccinate. >> dr. mark kline, the thank you for being here, we hope you and your hospital stay safe. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thanks jonathan. >> coming up, in the middle of a pandemic, millions of americans are in danger of losing their homes after conservatives on the supreme court ruled against the evict...