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Let's peel back the layers and questions over whether tests can detect omicron. here is what we know now. hospitals are at maximum capacity again and that includes pediatric icus. so headlines that are opposed to twitter diagnosis that omicron is mild is clearly wrong. question. how can something be mild if it can damage your organs for life? it's a lot of changing information coming at us at once and a lot of heated debate over what it means. after two years people are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. we're all desperate for some semblance of normalcy during the holidays as we march ...

Vaccinated? the parents should get to choose, so we won't go to the classroom? where does it end? does it ever end? >> the pediatric icus are full with kids of covid. i have three kids who. pete: many of which have other. >> did you invite me on here to yell at me. pete: no, i expected -- i mean, this is an interesting debate. because you are arguing for some level of online education that the unions really aren't part of the problem here and that kids need to get vaccinated to solve but there is plenty of kids that are sick it's true but the vast majority of them are not affected by covid. >>...

In terms of pediatric icu admissions. anecdotally, it is looking pretty dire. all the pediatric icus are filling up with kids. this is even before school starts. so the big unknown is what happens when schools begin? unfortunately, the timing is terrible in many louisiana parishes. schools are going to open next week. here in houston, for instance, august 23rd, we tend to do this earlier in the south than in the north. will this be an accelerant? the bottom line, i think the most important point is, we have to throw out the ideologies and preconceived notions. we now have to be all hands on de...

Concerned, and i understand your concern. i'm a mom. i double and triple checked before i had my kids vaccinated, kids are not immune from this. we are seeing pediatric icus full. colleagues of mine are seeing kids with long covid. this is very, very real. a lot of kids just have sniffles, but a lot don't and i want to urge all parents out there to strongly reconsider their position. >> that said, we are now what, 48 hours away from thanksgiving dinner for a lot of people and if you are having dinner with people under the age of 17, any kids, only about a third of those kids 5 to 17 have at le...

Long covid, which means your symptoms don't really get better in a couple of weeks and this is a pretty serious thing. those kids are fatigued, they have the brain fog that makes it hard for them to function effectively in class then there's this other conditions called misc. multisystem inflammatory syndrome of children, which is very serious and is putting a lot of kids in pediatric icus. it's treatable, not generally fatal, but it's a very serious threat to the health of that child. so you put those together, there's a lot of risk here. 146 kids in this age group have died. that seems like ...