climbing. in fact, the american academy of pediatrics says that covid cases among children are extremely high again. it s almost near the peak we reached in september. dr. lee savio beers. dr. beers, thank you for joining us. i want to look at the data here for folks. it really is pretty striking, even though it s relatively early. in the week ending the 27th, 334 new pediatric hospital admissions due to covid. the week prior, 212. 58% increase. a very disturbing trend. how concerned are you about childhood hospitalizations, and are these serious trends that parents need to worry about? well, yeah. i thank you for this. yes, we are quite concerned. and i think there s a couple important pieces here to point out. first is we are not necessarily
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