this pandemic. dr rick barr is the chief clinical officer at the arkansas children s hospital and joins us now. thank you very much for being with us on bbc news, particularly at this difficult time. can t tell us a bit about the situation affecting young patients that you re dealing with at the moment and how it contrasts with what you experienced previously in earlier stages of the pandemic. indie earlier stages of the pandemic. we have earlier stages of the pandemic. - have seen a significant increase in the increasing people admitted with covid 19 infections which is very different from the previous months of the pandemic we would have one or two children admitted to the hospital with a covid 19 infection and there be it symptomatic. now, children are really sick and we have 12 patients in the hospital and for mechanical ventilation due to symptomatic pneumonia. and so it seems to be affecting children very differently than what we saw with
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