Parents have questions. They've called into the show. They've talked to you. I know you've

went into the communities and are talking to parents as well. And they have questions about

their kids, which are going back to school here in the US really shortly. And the media

and public health officials have really created a frenzy atmosphere around the Delta variant

with their reporting. And this is what it looks like. Take a look at this.

We just as parents are preparing to send kids back to school. More than 1900 kids are currently

hospitalized with the coronavirus. Children who early on would thought to be virtually

immune to COVID are filling up hospitals from coast to coast. Children are less likely

to get COVID, but that doesn't mean they're not going to get it. They're not going to get

sick and they're not going to die from it. This Delta variant that we're seeing now changes

the game. So we're seeing kids come in with respiratory illnesses, cough, shortness of

breath, beating supplemental oxygen on our respiratory floors.

The children are more ill. They require higher levels of care. And sadly, I think we're

going to be seeing more deaths over the coming weeks. The only population in the United

States today that is 100% unvaccinated is children under the age of 12 years. So as responsible

adults and as a society, we've got to use a layered approach and actually cocoon them

to keep them safe. We don't know the long-term impacts. Kids are getting long haul COVID

and so we just don't know what this means for them down the road.

If you want to keep them in school, you really got to do whatever you can to keep them safe.

The first thing you do is that you surround them with people who are vaccinated. We can't

risk children's lives today because they're going to be having impacts the rest of their

lives.

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