arkansas children's health system says he has seen something terrifying. throughout the prooevious month of the pandemic, we had 0 to three children testing positive for covid, and they often showed up for other reasons, weren't showing symptoms of the covid infection. today we have 24 with covid infections, all symptomatic with covid, and eight of those are in intensive care and five requiring mechanical ventilation to breathe. >> children on ventilators. the head of the coronavirus response said one-third of all cases reported this past week were in florida and texas. nadia romero is joining us now from new orleans. these health officials are really sounding an alarm here, nadia. >> reporter: they are, brianna, and it feels like deja vu in new orleans because we have been here before. remember the first super spreader event was right after