a bright note to end the program, cooper roberts, paralyzed in the highland park mass shooting, is heading back to school. he was moved to pediatric icu last week. he is doing daily exercises to regain mobility. he s expected to join his twin brother for half days of school and do outpatient rehab. he s been reignited with the family dog, george. great friends reunited. we wish him the best. sara sidner is next. anderson, thank you so much. the big question tonight, what exactly was the fbi looking for when it executed a search warrant at former trump s home? why was it so important?
now. no children who received any of these vaccines in these studies ended up in a pediatric icu or a pediatric hospital. that s important because that s the purpose of a vaccine against a contagious respiratory virus, no hospitalizations. how should parents be thinking about the timing here? should they be going now, for example, in the summer? should they be waiting to get the booster closer to fall when experts have anticipated there may be yet another spike? i d get it right when it s available. okay. however, and it s key here, i m speaking to the 70% of parents out there who have decided to not get their children between the ages of 5 and 11 vaccinated, it s critical to recognize that children were hospitalized at six times the rate during the omicron wave than they were during prior waves of covid-19 and at the rate of hospitalization from omicron is in some cases five to ten times higher than what we would see in a normal cold and flu season. this is something the way
. more than 1 million people a day could soon be testing positive for covid, according to dr. anthony fauci. hospitals are struggling to keep up with the surge. one hospital is reporting a critical staffing shortage. this includes people who need non-covid critical care. another problem, keeping kids safe as they head back to school. more than 300,000 students have been stuck at home since wednesday. their education is being put on hold as the district pushes teachers to return to classrooms. los angeles reports that nearly one-quarter of children hospitalized with covid are admitted to the pediatric icu units. that is just very, very scary news. some even need to be intubated. let s go to cnn and natasha chen in los angeles county. natasha, that s scary information coming out of l.a.
emerging data is optimistic that it might lead to less severe illness but still, combination of delta and omicron so we have to be careful. as to kids if there s one thing clear here, alicia, expecting 2 and a half million expected infections day to day over the next month and it s going to be a long tail. still million estimated infections through the the country into march. after that, the number of kids ending up in the hospital is a small percentage so i think we still need to have contact care and those going into hospital, moderate symptoms, a few days of observation, make sure no one is ending up in the pediatric icu. yes, there are cases, but not too many. contact care is important, masking everybody, kids and adult staff, mandatory vaccines