Doctors say it's crucial to protect children against the Delta variant -- not just for the sake of their health and to keep in-person learning, but also to help prevent more aggressive variants from setting the entire country back.
More kids were hospitalized with Covid-19 this month than any other time this past year -- further proving how seriously the Delta variant can hit any age group.
Between August 20 and 26, an average of 330 children were admitted to hospitals every day with Covid-19, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 'This is not an adult disease anymore': Hospitals report children in ICUs or on ventilatorsThat's the highest rate of new Covid-19 hospitalizations among children in more than a year -- a record that was broken several times in August, according to CDC data.
Teachers' union responds to criticism for not pushing vaccine mandates 05:28"When we have families that don't want to have masks on their child, what they're doing is not only chance they will have to be quarantined," Simon said. If a student gets infected,"they will also have other students who did have masks on who would also need to be quarantined." "Everybody wants to move forward. Nobody wants to have masks forever," Simon said.
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