how many that actually impacts. however, you have to weigh that against the cost of having unvaccinated health care workers and how many people would be exposed and hurt from that phenomenon as well. yeah. i mean what he promised the country, dr. redlener, is that you should not and you will not be at risk if you go into a facility seeking health care treatment. he also called on physicians. he named checked pediatricians, general practitioners, family doctors to go through their files he didn t use that word, but to go through their patient list and reach out personally, call anyone who is not yet vaccinated who is over 12 years old. what will the impact of that be? that was a pretty power fm message that he gave. just in terms of what he was just saying, i think we have a very, very angry and frustrated in some cases group of our primary health care providers, doctors, icu doctors, et cetera,
republican state legislature has failed us. said doctor david portugal, a cardiologist in sugar land texas. these leaders should be held accountable and be asked to explain how they can justify taking actions that are killing their fellow texans. that s a doctor s view. a cardiologist view. i guess, my question is, if pediatric icu is filled to capacity, don t dent governor abbott, what are the chances of running callous people like him, out of state government? you put up the poll numbers for governor abbott, and i know you are saying 41% why do they still support him. keep in mind that s the lowest that governor abbott has every poll. that he s always polled at 50% or, higher that s why he s won the elections in the past. he s at a low, point and i think it s going to keep going lower. he s exceedingly in my view, vulnerable but he has to be vulnerable to the right candidate, with the right
well, first of all, thank you so much for having me on, jonathan. and sophia, i m glad to hear you are feeling better. so, i wrote this piece because, you know, when my child was 3 weeks old, he required a pediatric i.c.u. at the time he only had to wait a few hours for his bed. what we re seeing now across the country, especially in the southeast, our pediatric i.c.u.s are at capacity. we re seeing a surge in cases overall of hospitalizations and i.c.u. admissions, which means that we are doing a very poor job of protecting our most vulnerable. and right now our most vulnerable are our children because they are not eligible yet for vaccinations. and we actually have been using this vaccination-only strategy, and so i really want to encourage the administration to really think about also reinforcing that masks are incredibly important to preventing this spread.
governor has moved the party to on this. this comes as the county judge and the county supervisor in dallas county announced a few days ago, there is no pediatric icu beds available in north texas. the head of texas in houston says 20% of their cases are kids. abbott and paxton have taken republicans to an extreme position, one that could threaten suburban voter which are still critical in deciding the balance of power in the state. it is not clear where the next stage goes. it is not over yet. and abbott and desantis keep on fighting with masks. you find important similarities where these feuds are happening. what is that? tell me about it. we have never seen about this
people who are who do want to behave responsibly in public health measures. and so it s unclear exactly what s possible from the angles he s talking about, but they re obviously trying everything. thank god that someone in a position of power and public trust is taking this seriously. and by that i mean president joe biden. i was so grateful to hear his comments today about using the power of the civil rights division in the department of education to intervene on behalf of kids to make sure they re protected against a deadly virus, which in texas has already killed more than 54,000 of my fellow texans since last year. we are now in a state that leads the country in pediatric hospitalizations. and lawrence, tonight there are large parts of the state that no longer have a single pediatric icu bed left. so that means that a child with covid who needs hospitalization