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Children's hospital wards fill up with covid before. we've never seen pediatric intensive care units get overwhelmed with covid cases. we've seen icus of course and that's been the great tragedy in this country around covid-19, but not pediatric icus. and that's where somebody at some point has to draw the line and say no. we are not going to let our kids get sick and go into pediatric icus when we don't have to, right? we can do things. we can mandate masks in the schools. we can mandate that all of the eligible adolescents over the age of 12 get vaccinated if they want to go to school. by th...

It's time to ask your doctor about kesimpta. we have many 18 and 20-year-olds in icus, on ventilators, even babies in pediatric icus in louisiana. so while the attack rate for younger people is lower, it is

Sophisticated equipment as patients get sicker and sicker. >> right. if you overwhelm the hospitals, not only do you run out of space potentially but you also run out of workers to take care of those patients. >> and, jim, by the way, that's -- remember, that's what we saw in south texas last summer. that's where the mortality -- that's when mortality shoots up is when our icus get overwhelmed. imagine if this starts happening with pediatric icus. >> i can't even think about that. let me switch gears to college kids, because a lot of college kids are going back to school or entering college fo...

Louisiana, mississippi, and florida. which is, now we're starting to see large numbers of young people pile into hospitals and lots of kids going into pediatric intensive-care units. and to me, that's the game changer. we've not seen kids pile into picus, pediatric icus, across the south like we're seeing right now. we didn't see that nearly as much last summer, as far as i can tell. we don't want to reproduce that here. we have to give our kids every chance and -- and quite honestly, i would take it even a step further. yes, mask mandates. i think we absolutely need vaccination mandates for s...

Hard hit like louisiana which has tripled their vaccination rates but we have a long way to go there and some of the places are only at about 30% coverage. >> could you reinforce to our viewers the impact the delta variant has on the younger population, on babies and children, how dangerous is it for them? >> thank you for raising that. i think there has been this general sense over the last year and a half that young people don't have to worry about this. look at what's happening now. we have many 18 and 20-year-olds in icus on ventilators, even babies in pediatric icus in louisiana. so while...