What parents should know about sending kids back to school during Omicron

Millions of American kids will head back to classrooms in the coming days -- just as the Omicron variant is fueling record new Covid-19 case counts.

And that has many parents wondering what's safe as the most contagious variant yet sweeps the country."We fear that it's going to get a lot worse, between getting together for the holidays and then getting back to school," said Dr. Stanley Spinner, chief medical officer at Texas Children's Pediatrics & Texas Children's Urgent Care in Houston.

But because Omicron is much more contagious than Delta, doctors say the raw number of children hospitalized in the coming months could be higher. And almost all children currently hospitalized for Covid-19 are not vaccinated, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics said. "What we're hearing from hospitals, really across the nation -- and this is very consistent -- is that the vast majority of the children who are being admitted are unvaccinated," Dr.

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