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Up as tragic as that is, we know the delta variant is more transmissable. is that what is attributing to this? >> it is a very fine point. they have increased dramatically, five fold, since the beginning of summer nap is true and there is more cases per one million children hospitalized now than even in our peak in january. but the proportion of cases has remained the same that suggests that the delta variant is not more severe in children, it's just a matter of sheer numbers. the more cases in the community, the more cases in adults, the more cases we'll see in our children. importantly here ...

Fully vaccinated in this country which means we have a whole nation within a nation of unvaccinated folks. tens of millions of people who aren't vaccinated. not to mention children. unvaccinated folks are clustered in areas around each other because vaccination is not evenly distributed. there are areas like gaines county, texas where less than 25% are not vaccinated and places where 75% are vaccinated. we have a variant is more aggressive and more transmissable coupled with a total absence of public health measures to stop the spread. if you wanted an informal study that all those interventio...

Of them will require hospitalization. the more children get infected, the more kids you'll see that are going to require hospitalization. we do not know yet, we don't have enough data, chris, to say that on a child by child basis it's much more severe delta. it might be there's some hints that it is more severe in adults so you might be able to extrapolate that maybe it's going be more severe in children but from the data we have, the only thing we know is that more children are getting infected and the more kids infected, more will wind up in the hospital. >> i want to be really clear on this...

Have enough data, chris, to say that on a child by child basis it's much more severe, delta. it might be there is some hints that it is more severe in adults. so you might be able to extrapolate that maybe it's going to be more severe in children. but from the data we have, the only thing we know is that more children are getting infected and the more kids that get infected, more of them are going to wind up in the hospital, and that's what that mmwr tells you. >> i want to be really bother clooer on this because it's something parents are thinking about a lot. what i just read is the total ho...

Tens of millions of people who aren't vaccinated, not to mention children. unvaccinated folks are clustered in areas around each other because it's not evenly distributed throughout the population. areas like gains county, texas, less than 25% of people are fully vaccinated and middlesex county, massachusetts, where more than 75% of people are fully vaccinated. we have a variant which we know from the data is more aggressive and more transmissable. coupled with basically a total absence of public health measures to stop the spread. if you want an informal of the study that, yes, all those inte...