we re seeing very few people hospitalized. reporter: miguel marquez, cnn, houston, texas. for more i m joined by texas emergency medical physician from the baylor college of medicine. great to have you with you, the scenes we just saw heartbreaking. you re in hues top. are you and your colleagues seeing similar situations with children? absolutely, erica. what s being reported across the country is similar to what we re seeing here in texas. the american academy of pediatrics state that had over 325,000 children were diagnosed with covid last week alone. those are record-breaking numbers. you just aired the segment about texas children hospital. their hospital rates have increased four times over the last to you weeks and the majority of the children being
that date back to a pandemic th previous administration. joe biden is doing an excellent job. at like them to do better than he s doing in you stop to get through congress in republican say no to everything in there i one democrat says no to it than it doesn t pass and that is too bad. well, to be fair, the republicans did vote for infrastructure and they voted for the trillion that went out and the cares act, but most of the other big things they ve been trying to get done on the health the democrat agenda has not gotten through. let s talk about this, and new headlines as new data show thos that recovered from covid 19 we re less likely to then the vaccinated to get infected during delta weight. this is from the cdc it says ne data released postvaccination and prior infection offers strong protection against infection and hospitalization from covid 19 during the delta wave. in that case hospital rates wer lower among people who had recovered from covid 19 then among those who had b
. this is a very difficult time during the surge. we re seeing high hospital rates as you mentioned and a strain in many hospitals around the country. the good news is there are parts of the country, new york in particular and parts of the northeast wrewhere we re starting to see a plateau and early decline. the entire country is not moving at the same pace. omicron started later in other parts of the country. the next few weeks will be tough. as the number of daily covid 189 cases tops 800,000 nationwide, that was u.s. surgeon general murthy warning we have not yet hit the omicron peek. joining us now, dr. kavita patel. she s a former obama white house policy director and we re happy to say an msnbc medical contributor. dr. patel, good morning. so great to see you. let s start from there, what we
forecast. so when bill karins tells me what it is going to be like, i m willing to put up with it because i understand it and see it coming. neither of those happen with covid. so we talked to a variety of experts who said that you could look at hospital rates, icu rates, vaccination rates, case loads. that from those you could project something reliable to help people know what kind of decisions to make about their schools, their work, their other organizations, their personal lives. certainly some uncertain messaging, right, where it seems some states have gotten ahead of the federal government. we heard from president biden say over the weekend, look, they re following the science and the federal guidelines could change in due course but no timetable set yet. mike, let s shift gears here. there s been a rise of these disturbing incidences. an anti-semitic symbol was found inside the auchlt embassy in
Vermont's three largest hospitals are projecting tens of millions of dollars in losses this year amid rising labor costs and the highest rate of inflation.