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In this New Orleans ICU, children with covid-19 are fighting for their lives

August 24, 2021 | 1:58 PM GMT
Carvase Perrilloux was not even 2 months old when he was hospitalized for covid-19 at Children's Hospital of New Orleans. He is among a number of children who contracted a serious case of the disease during the summer of 2021 in Louisiana, which had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.