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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
you that these are the darkest days of this pandemic. the darkest days of the pandemic there. and some of the hardest for the people in the hardest-hit states, such as louisiana, whose staf who staff the icus. i have worked in the covid icu, pretty much, the whole pandemic. so, year and a half, two years, now. and i can say today was probably one of the most emotionally hard days, since the pandemic started. that nurse, felicia kroft, has been working since the beginning in the icu. she joins us shortly. she says the patients she is treating in this latest wave are younger. parents, this time, not just grandparents and the delta variant is now sending kids to the hospital. listen to the chief clinical officer for the arkansas children s health system. throughout the previous months of the pandemic, we would have, you know, zero to, maybe, three children admitted to the