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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Increasing Number Of Children Hospitalized Due To Omicron

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In one pediatric hospital, the number of kids testing positive for COVID-19 has increased by 1000% compared to the Delta surge. But does that necessarily mean serious illness for those kids? A pediatrician joins to explain if it means hospitalization or worse. If you are confused by the new CDC isolation guidance, you are hardly alone. Some health experts are bashing the CDC and the Biden administration about what they say is really driving the changes.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A new warning from children's hospitals, the lead starts right now.

0:08.1

In one pediatric hospital, they're seeing a 1,000% increase in the number of kids testing

0:13.2

positive for COVID compared with the Delta Surge, but does that necessarily mean serious illness

0:18.5

for those kids?

0:19.5

Does it mean hospitalization or worse?

0:21.6

A pediatrician from that hospital is here to explain his biggest concerns, and if you're

0:26.7

confused by the new CDC Isolation Guidance, you are hardly alone.

0:30.7

Some health experts today bashing the CDC and the Biden administration about what they

0:35.1

say is really driving the changes.

0:37.5

Then, you won't catch them cooperating with the January 6th Committee.

0:41.4

You're more likely to find them flying south to kiss Donald Trump's ring.

0:50.5

Welcome to the lead-umptuic tap where we start today with our health lead and new questions

0:54.2

about the CDC's reduced isolation period guidelines, as the U.S. New Year's and all-time

0:59.1

record for daily cases of COVID.

1:01.2

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, now suggesting people with COVID should isolate

1:05.4

for five days that's down from 10.

1:08.2

As long as they have no symptoms, the CDC insisting the change is motivated by the science

1:12.6

purely.

1:13.6

The science, they say, which shows your most contagious in the first few days of your illness

1:18.3

if you have COVID, but Dr. Anthony Fauci admitting that the new rules were aimed at least

1:22.8

in part at getting people back to work more quickly.

1:26.1

The flight attendance union, now questioning how much these changes were influenced by

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