agree that president biden has communicated a clear plan when it comes to covid-19. we ve talked about this a lot, that mixed messaging, the confusion that really has plagued the pandemic response in this country from day one. do you think that can be fixed at this point? is there a way to message better from here on out? it s tough. it s really hard especially when you have a shifting sort of landscape. and it s tough, you know, i think for anybody to communicate definitively at a time when things may change. what i would say is that i think if you accept this notion that we are going to have covid, covid is here to stay, then i think really defining what success means i think is going to be really important. and i know that this is one of those things where we still need to get a vaccine authorized for kids. we obviously, i think everyone agrees that hospitals cannot be overwhelmed. that s just ridiculous what s happening these hospitals, patients who have nothing to do with covid
is making its way through the united states. our next guest, a pediatrician in houston, texas says, quote, in the past two months i have hospitalized more babies particularly babies under 3 years of age that i had in the prior three years. yesterday in texas an 11-month old girl with covid who was having seegsars had to be airlifted to a hospital 150 miles away because there were no pediatric beds available in houston. next week millions of students will return to school in texas and across the south including in states where officials have prohibited requiring students and teachers to wear masks. in texas cases and covid hospitalizations have more than doubled in the last two weeks. but the republican governor of texas, greg abbott, is still refusing to require masks in schools. and yesterday texas education officials announced that schools will not get this will not
pneumonia, covid pneumonia certainly we see that in pediatrics as well. and currently about a third of the pediatric patients hospitalized here in houston and in texas are requiring critical care, intensive care stays. dr. roy, what would you tell people who still believe that children with covid aren t heavily impacted by covid, that it s not a big deal? i would encourage them to listen to people like dr. propst and other other pediatricians and doctors and specialists and front line health care workers and parents of children who are struggling, who are sick, who are getting hospitalized and sadly who are dying. the thing is, jonathan, and i already know what the push back is going to be. a lot of the people some people are going to say, well, wait a second i thought you all said covid doesn t affect children. the reality is that sarz kov 2