keila rodriguez comes home daughter knows wait hug momma pandemic start up would tell ca hug mom decently shower change around sick citizenry day want get sick texas pediatrician told abc newsworthiness knows descend home says happy see stay far away say shower change want hugs rodriguez hometown mcallen rio grande valley especially multiple people father family died virus said quickly became personal everybody community said almost everybody knew somebody sick died family set off regain sense normalcy delta variant surged recent weeks record numbers cases children reported pediatric intensive care unit parts country reaching levels seen pandemic nestling heading back classroom keila rodriguez pediatrist texas undated photograph daughter courtesy anahi weddings rodriguez like many paediatrician across country worried overwhelmed trying produce angry pediatricians children abc news spoke order fears current surge patient families especially communicable diseases spread using platforms try get formulate vaccination extenuation difficult time emotionally mentally physically rodriguez said record cases children cases children record levels pediatric cases account figure reported pandemic according recent report american english academy pediatrics children hospital connection highest number weekly cases reported prior hebdomad topping according organizations hospitalizations also soared tell parent child positive covid discover reverence eyes david reeves pediatrician remembrance hospital gulfport gulfport mississippi told abc news luckily children ill for sure seeing severe illness delta wave kids getting sick covid delta allay children continue lower risk getting seriously ill dying recent centers disease ascendancy bar study found noting increase pediatric hospitalizations summer coincided rampant spread computer virus cdc aforesaid could determine available data whether rise hospitalizations due increase transmission greater illness caused delta american honorary society pediatrics tyke hospital connexion warned pressing need collect data consequences pandemic children including way of life virus english hawthorn harm physical wellness infected children good emotional mental health effects place last rebekah diamond wish children hospitalized multisystem inflammatory syndrome children since start pandemic hospital pediatrician columbia university john pierpont morgan stanley children hospital new york city also come across impacts children mental wellness loss social supports tied pandemic lot public lecture covid bad kids mean kind unhelpful form truly frustrating question know covid bad kids know pandemic bad kids separate abc news rhombus daughter tell felt vast amount anxiety caring patients beginning pandemic worried might bring virus home spread family navigating pandemic doctor parent met single doctor said yea breeze baseball field said certainly met single parent especially point palpate level extreme fatigue stress burnout variety emotion anger grief anxiety would say right everyone tips help ease kids rearwards school anxiety cases risen across area due highly transmissible delta variant past weeks destablizing diamond said tactile property like almost worse place last class kids said navigating childcare continues specially pregnant diamond said really die nittygritty parent pediatrician parents continue navigate difficult choices pandemic around child care school feeling like ca control everything degree crisis right largely preventable said sleep together bring up feel totally let golden state blame concerned katherine king pediatric infectious disease physician scientist works baylor college medicine texas children hospital