Inskeep. Good evening welcome to tonights debate provides our democrat Kate Schroder are republicans so they have will discuss many issues affecting not only ohios but the entire tristate. We will talk more about tonight more about tonights format in just a moment but first id like to introduce the panelists the ones asking the questions asking the questions and i. Their Cincinnati Business Courier reporter and columnist Chris Wetterich and yes on 22 do the presidency of the cincinnati usa Regional Chamber and eddie koen is the ceo of the urban league of greater southwestern ohio. Thereve been changes over the years so this is what ohios First District currently looks like. It comprises of a swath of northern and northeastern Hamilton County and all of orange county. Because of covid19 the traditional opening handshake is not being observed tonight but we do want to thank Kate Schroder and steve chabot for being with us and taking part in this exchange of ideas by want to tell you a li
Diseases division chief at Childrens National hospital. Thanks for being with us this morning. Good morning. How many cases of covid19 have you treated among children at the hospital . Well, we started ten cases in the middle of march and weve now had over 600 children that have come to the hospital with symptoms. About a quarter of those have been admitted to the hospital. So about 150 of those. And about a quarter of those to a third of those have needed our intensive care unit. Whats the pattern among children, what do you see and how are their symptoms different from adults . We really are seeing several different patterns of disease. So of those 600, the vast majority of them, and this has been seen in other parts of the country, as well. They have mild to moderate illness, where they have typical respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat. So mild, moderate illness. But the children admitted fall into several different categories. Some of them from what is simila
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The chief of the pediatric at Childrens National hospital. Thank you for being with us this morning. How many cases of covid19 have you treated among children of the hospital . Guest we started seeing cases in the middle of march, and we have now had over 600 children come to the hospital with symptoms. E have been admitted to the hospital, so about 150 of those and about a quarter of those or a 1 3 of those have needed our intensive care unit. Host whats the pattern among children, what do you see and how are their symptoms different from adults . Guest we really are seeing several different patterns of disease. So of those 600, the vast majority of them, and this really has been seen in other parts of the country as well, they have mild to moderate illness where they have typical respiratory symptoms either fever or cough and then have runny nose or sore throat so very mild moderate illness. The children admitted fall in several different categories. Some of them have what is similar
In the middle of march and now had over 600 children that have come to the hospital with symptoms, about a quarter of those have been admitted to the hospital, so about 150 of those and about a quarter of those or a 1 3 of those have needed our intensive care unit. Host whats the pattern among children, what do you see and how are their symptoms different from adults . Guest we really are seeing several different patterns of disease. So of those 600, the vast majority of them, and this really has been seen in other parts of the country as well, they have mild to moderate illness where they have typical respiratory symptoms either fever or cough and then have runny nose or sore throat so very mild moderate illness. The children admitted fall in several different categories. Some of them have what is similar to what the adults have seen with a severe pneumonia or clotting issues. But then we have another set of children very young who have a neonatal c fever, sepsis type picture. And our