12 children hospitalized with COVID-19 and 5 in Intensive Care Units at Children’s Hospital, New Orleans

Reporter Kenny Lopez, WGNO-ABC. Full story here.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— As of Friday at Children’s Hospital New Orleans there are currently 12 kids being treated for COVID-19 and 5 of those children are in Intensive Care Units.

“We’ve seen an explosive increase in the number of cases. These children are very uncomfortable and their parents are scared for them,” Dr. Mark Kline at Children’s Hospital said.

Dr. Mark Kline says the delta variant is no joke and everyone needs to take it seriously.

“Unfortunately we’re going to see more children die from the delta variant than the earlier variants,” he said.

The CDC is now saying the delta variant is as contagious as chicken pox and spread more easily than the common cold, 1918 flu, and smallpox.

“This virus is spreading like wildfire,” Dr. Kline said.