we are seeing a lot of covid, anderson, like your previous piece mentioned. we are concerned. we are seeing more covid than we have seen in previous waves as everyone is referencing tonight. and it s worrying the worst of the winter has not passed and so we are bracing for what is still to come. the new york governor said the state is not in a good place. are hospitalizations for covid up, or is it a symptom of people in the hospital for something else and they end up testing positive for covid? i think it s important to answer that question to give people at home a bit of context. so we have been testing children who come to the hospital for any reason for a long time now. so, children before they have routine surgeries and procedures, as well as children
we are seeing more covid than we have seen in previous waves as everyone is referencing tonight. and it s worrying the worst of the winter has not passed and so we are bracing for what is still to come. the new york governor said the state is not in a good place. are hospitalizations for covid up, or is it a symptom of people in the hospital for something else and they end up testing positive for covid? i think it s important to answer that question to give people at home a bit of context. so we have been testing children who come to the hospital for any reason for a long time now. so, children before they have routine surgeries and procedures, as well as children who present to emergency rooms and the rate of positive cases coming about back, positive tests coming back is definitely higher, anderson. so that percentage of tests that is coming back positive is higher now than it has been in at any other point. there s without a doubt, more children with covid-19 right now
this issue is in middle of the campaign for city hall. now we have the latest on if the rug s been pulled out from the gifted and talented kids. hello, mollie. reporter: good afternoon. the often embattled new york city mayor bill de blasio is on the way out the door. before he leaves he announced plans to phase out the gifted and talented program. this is in the middle of the pretty rowdy mayoral contest going on. the current program calls for testing children. critics say it favor s white children. the new program screens students in second grade, identifying subject area strength and accelerated instruction will be provided while students stay in their classrooms.
house and hassle them like they are isis-k. don t put masks on our children anymore, that is child abuse. actually, that is true and anyone who has looked at the data knows it is true. belgian pediatricians in the academy of medicine just issued this assessment of masks in schools. here it is, testing children, imposing mouth masks in quarantine go against the principle of first do no harm which is included in the hippocratic oath that doctors take. these drastic actions do much more damage to children in the short and long term then going through the covid infection itself. now that is not some angry mom from laguna beach. those are physicians saying that and if you look around, and you should, you will not find a single study anywhere in the world that fundamentally contradicts that assessment. there is no science, none, behind these mask mandates for children. in fact, days ago miguel