is making its way through the united states. our next guest, a pediatrician in houston, texas says, quote, in the past two months i have hospitalized more babies particularly babies under 3 years of age that i had in the prior three years. yesterday in texas an 11-month old girl with covid who was having seegsars had to be airlifted to a hospital 150 miles away because there were no pediatric beds available in houston. next week millions of students will return to school in texas and across the south including in states where officials have prohibited requiring students and teachers to wear masks. in texas cases and covid hospitalizations have more than doubled in the last two weeks. but the republican governor of texas, greg abbott, is still refusing to require masks in schools. and yesterday texas education officials announced that schools will not get this will not
texans to access the ballot box. that s why we need better legislation to protect not just texans but all americans and freedom to vote. representative hinojosa, are you staying in washington or going back to texas? tell you, we re here to work in washington for as long as the senate is working. okay. our job is here. this is a front on which we can win. in texas we can only buy time. but we are the minority party, and there s only so much we can do there. all right, texas state representative gina hinojosa, and congresswoman nickina from georgia. coming up, lost john lewis
very quickly. your previous guests talked about how children as young as 5 months are being having tubes so they can preegt. this is a problem. i have to tell you when i step back and look at the demographics of texas where close to 54% of the kids in classes are latino, where a majority of kids in classrooms are kids of color, it begs the question why isn t the governor putting these families and children at the forefront? it begs the question when you look at all the nutearious activities this governor abbott has been doing, from disenfranchising them at the voting booth and the list goes on. and you have to look at it through that lens to recognize this at least in texas has a clear mandate that doesn t want to keep communities of color healthy and safe so that they could self-determine themselves and make the right decisions for their families.
the senate to the democrats. democratic legislatures in texas did it when they left their lives behind in texas to come to washington to raise hell about voter suppression. and tonight democratic senators are working on voting legislation. that doesn t happen without the power given to this issue through protests. it doesn t happen if people don t wait in long lines to vote for senators warnock and ossoff. it does not happen if texas democrats had stayed in the chamber and let the original and much worse texas republican voter suppression bill pass in may. this fight could use more power, no doubt. but the fighters are still working on getting it. joining us now is democratic congresswoman nikema williams of georgia who sits in the seat once held by the great john lewis and texas state representative gina hinajosa.
pneumonia, covid pneumonia certainly we see that in pediatrics as well. and currently about a third of the pediatric patients hospitalized here in houston and in texas are requiring critical care, intensive care stays. dr. roy, what would you tell people who still believe that children with covid aren t heavily impacted by covid, that it s not a big deal? i would encourage them to listen to people like dr. propst and other other pediatricians and doctors and specialists and front line health care workers and parents of children who are struggling, who are sick, who are getting hospitalized and sadly who are dying. the thing is, jonathan, and i already know what the push back is going to be. a lot of the people some people are going to say, well, wait a second i thought you all said covid doesn t affect children. the reality is that sarz kov 2