loses their appetite and within days their liver severely in flamed. at least 98 children in this outbreak have been hospitalized 15 had liver transplant and five had died and there is no clear explanation why. the number of cases in the period of time and all over the world and also following this huge pandemic. do you draw a connection then between the pandemic and what s happening with these kids hepatitis? one of the things that i question was did these kids ever have covid? kids can go asymptomatic with covid but have all these inflammatory side effects. should these kids be getting tested for their antibodies to covid? i do think that s something we should be testing so we can no whether it is related to that. for many others, we don t
269 meat packing workers would die of covid and nearly 60,000 would contract the virus. joining me now is congressman, member of the select committee that issued today s report. i m glad you re here. i know there s a lot of focus on the committees involving january 6th. this is a big story. it s one you have to think about what was at take and the calculated risks taken on behalf of employees but could it really be that we were duped into thinking there were going to be shortages as a way to keep the plants open? it seems that way. basically what happened was the meat industry claimed there was a shortage of meat for domestic consumption but they were saying the ceos of the companies was saying it was more than enough meat to export to other
sorry i lost you there. the idea of the grim milestone that people think often times covid is done, it is not. you still have people dying and the 100 million person today. i know, and there are hu hundreds of people still dying everyday. that s the thing. people want to look at this in the rear-view mirror, it is a grim milestone. what strikes me the most is 700,000 people had died since the vaccines were first authorized. that s the thing, we know how protective these vaccines could be against people getting severely ill and dying. more people have died since the authorization because so many people who have not gotten immunity from this. dr. gupta, that in itself is grim. thank you very much. and, another surprising story about health and the pandemic. the question is the biggest names in the meat industry lie about the threat of supply
these outbreak, these are healthy kids and average age two and they can progress quickly. she s doing well. you saw her at the end sort of bossing the nurses around. it is remarkable how quickly she s recovered. this big operation was about a week ago. she s doing well. she got a lifetime of drugs and constant of monitoring and trying to figure out what happened here. and i am so glad that you inquired about the idea of correlation of covid and of course other viruses trying to rule out and what happened for so many parents. dr. gupta, i have to ask you, this is a horrible milestone reached today. what a grim milestone and many may think that covid is over but you are talking about the 100 millionth person today alone.