only two options. now we have a third option we can hold school remotely. alicia: chicago s public schools got $2.8 billion from the federal government to help schools reopen safely. the district is already spent tens of millions of dollars on safety equipment but the teachers union wants were to be done. also today as we wait to hear the decision from the supreme court about biden s vaccine mandate, the cdc director is daunting questions about the false claim from supreme court justice said during oral arguments at 100,000 kids are hospitalized because of covid. from friday suggest fewer than 3500 current pediatric hospitalizations from covid-19, is that true? yeah, here s what i tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations, the vast majority of children in the hospital are unvaccinated. understood but number is not
care system. new data from the department of health and human services show nearly 1/4 of hospitals have critical staffing shortage. now some states have to deploy national guard troops as health care workers get sick with covid itself. the explosion of the highly contagious omicron variant. hospitalizations to near record levels. at admission children, especially kids, under 5 years old who are still too young, of course, to be vaccinated. here s what i can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now. first of all, the vast majority of children in the hospital are unvaccinated. and for those children who are not eligible for a vaccination, we do know that they are most likely to get the family members unvaccinated. the most important thing for the children to keep them out of the hospital is to vaccinate them and to vaccinate the family members around them.
hard to know at this moment in time. but i believe it s possible that some of our patients do have that variant right now. you some of our patients do have that variant right now. variant right now. you talk about the numbers variant right now. you talk about the numbers going variant right now. you talk about the numbers going up, - variant right now. you talk about the numbers going up, are - variant right now. you talk about the numbers going up, are you l variant right now. you talk about - the numbers going up, are you seeing it among hospital staff as well, among physicians and nurses and those working in the community? yeah, great question. it s been a tough two years for health workers. that s one of the reasons why many hospitals have been the first two really mandate the vaccines. so we re not really seeing as many infections. i think we are going to see even in vaccinated folks, mild infections are going to be an issue going into the new year. so we re kind of waiting o
statistics? yeah i will say that you know. here statistics? yeah i will say that you know. here in statistics? yeah i will say that you know, here in the statistics? yeah i will say that you know, here in the hospital, - statistics? yeah i will say that you know, here in the hospital, we ve| know, here in the hospital, we ve been seeing now for a few weeks more and more patients that have been coming in, primarily the folks coming in, primarily the folks coming into the hospital are unvaccinated. so, seeing the data that are out there, i d say we are cautious about going into the holidays, especially knowing that many people are going to be travelling, you know, spending more time with people they don t normally spend time with, indoors, so i think we are going to see infections rising and we already beginning to see that in some big urban centres in the us. ., i. ., ., , ., in the us. have you already had cases of people in the us. have you already had cases of people hospital