and these are all contributing factors as this variant continues to spread rapidly, steph. dr. hotez, let s talk kids because we often forget infants, toddlers, they are not even eligible for the vaccine. i know your hospital has seen child hospitalizations go up four fold but from where to where? are we talking 10 to 40 or 100 to 400? obviously every single child matters, but the total number matters when we think about new protocols and shutting down schools. well, remember, stephanie, this is just the beginning of this omicron wave and schools are only opening now, so anything that we re seeing now we should expect it s going to be multiplied significantly. we re seeing two flavors of pediatric hospitalizations, one are kids who are admitted for other reasons and we do routine testing and they re found to be positive and so that counts as a covid case, but they re not being admitted because of covid, and then the others who are actually being admitted for their covid-19 infectio