the federal agencies say that the number of children in the hospital with covid-19 is getting close to a peak that was reached in early september. new york city is reporting a five fold increase in pediatric hospitalizations. our cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is following all of this for us. so what should parents know about this increase in hospitalizations for children? i think the first thing they should know is that still the thumb of childnumber of childre hospital in the u.s. is still very small, count bu, counted couple hundred across the united states. but the concern is that the numbers are rising, still a small number, but they are rising. so let s take a look at national numbers. what we have here is that if you look at covid-19 hospitalizations among children, for the weekending december 18th, it was 201 per day. the weekending december 25th, 260 per day.