Pediatric hospitals are filling with coronavirus patients as schools start opening amid the latest surge in infections, this one driven by the highly contagious delta variant. Children's hospitals in Tennessee will be completely full by the end of this week, the state health department projected. In June, Florida's Wolfson Children's Hospital had 22 COVID-19 patients admitted: 12 of them were age 11 or younger, nine were ages 12 to 17. In July there were 94 admissions, 50 of them age 11 or younger, 44 were ages 12 to 17. A school district in Mississippi reported 114 COVID-19 positive students for the week of July 24-30 and 608 students under quarantine, pushing two high schools and a middle school to virtual learning until Aug. 16. "Simply stated, the delta variant has created a new and pressing risk to children and adolescents across this country, as it has also done for unvaccinated adults," said the American Academy of Pediatrics in a letter to acting FDA Commissioner last week. #backtoschool #covid19 #coronavirus #students