Monday morning on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt discussed the coronavirus crisis and the threat it poses to children with Dr. Natasha Kathuria — an emergency physician in Austin, Texas. Earhardt told Kathuria she had been under the impression that COVID-19 didn’t pose a major threat to kids — and Kathuria schooled the “Fox & Friends” co-host on how dire a threat coronavirus can be when children are infected. Noting a report that more than 97,000 children had tested positive for COVID-19 in the second half of July, Earhardt told Kathuria, “We’re all worried about sending our kids back to school. What is that going to look like for our country, and for our elderly grandparents and things like that? 97,000 kids have tested positive. We all — that was such a shock to me, because I had heard kids really don’t get it. If they do, they’re all going to be OK.” Kathuria explained, “You know, that was just in two weeks — so about 100,000 new cases in pediatric kids just in two weeks. And I can guarantee you that number is actually much higher.” Continue reading.
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