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We get more now from cnn's tom foreman reporting for us from washington. >> reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up, on average nearly 50% in just one week. new york city has seen pediatric admissions jump to five times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids coming to children's national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that's not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because -- >> we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because o...