From infants to teens, this health center has a deluge of young Covid-19 sufferers. here's what folks need others to understand - CNN

His mother, Gayvielle Goff, is struggling to talk.

"it's just in reality scary," Goff spoke of, trying to suppress tears.

on the equal Houston clinic, 17-yr-old Halie Mulanax is fighting Covid-19 on a ventilator. She's by no means viewed her three-week-historic baby because she's been in a medically induced coma for pretty much a month.

ultimate week, an average of 574 little ones with Covid-19 were admitted to hospitals day by day -- an epidemic record, in response to facts from the USA facilities for disease handle and Prevention.

And one medical professional worries "we might see more infants hospitalized over a extremely short duration of time."

A teen in a coma ignored her child's delivery

Halie Mulanax changed into 16 and pregnant when she obtained ailing with Covid-19.

Halie simply spent her seventeenth birthday in a medically brought on coma.

She has no idea her daughter, Xylah, had to be delivered 10 weeks early.

The household's Covid-19 ordeal has been "gutwrenching," Halie's mother Amy Woodruff mentioned.

"Our Covid adventure started ... November 29. Me and my daughter both demonstrated advantageous for Covid," Woodruff spoke of.

whereas Woodruff fared smartly together with her disorder, her teen daughter now not.

Halie was hospitalized in Amarillo and had to be placed on a ventilator.

At 29 weeks into her pregnancy, "she could not breathe," Woodruff spoke of. "Her oxygen degree turned into very low -- not adequate to assist the baby."

So whereas in a medically triggered coma, Halie had a Caesarian part and gave start to Xylah on December 9.

She weighed 3 pounds and 6 oz. Miraculously, her grandmother stated, the child did not have Covid-19.

Woodruff pointed out she has no idea how she will wreck the information that Halie missed her daughter's birth and first a few weeks of existence.

"i'm a mother. I couldn't think about. and that is the reason my little lady being away from our little girl," Woodruff observed. "My coronary heart bleeds for her."

while Xylah stayed at an Amarillo medical institution, her mother needed to be transported 900 miles away to Texas children's in Houston.

"mother changed into in such dangerous shape, they couldn't do all the treatments that mama necessary while the baby changed into still there" in Amarillo, Woodruff stated.

Woodruff mentioned Halie became not vaccinated in opposition t Covid-19 -- largely as a result of she turned into concerned about how the vaccine could affect her baby.

however now, Woodruff referred to she'd encourage her family to get vaccinated.

"any one i like, i would like for them to," she pointed out.

'I failed to predict Covid'

four-month-ancient Graysen Perry's mom referred to she's concerned her child might must be intubated.

Gayvielle Goff on no account imagined any of her toddlers -- a 5-12 months-old, a 3-yr-historic and a four-month ancient -- could get this unwell with Covid-19.

"They infrequently even catch a cold," Goff talked about. "Some individuals may also discover that difficult to agree with. however my little ones truly don't get unwell."

That modified significantly when 4-month-historical Graysen acquired Covid-19. Now he's hospitalized at Texas little ones's, the largest pediatric health facility in the nation. And Goff fears he can be placed on a ventilator.

"I failed to predict Covid," the 24-12 months-historic mom mentioned.

"for the reason that i used to be pregnant with him, I stayed in the residence. I went to doctor's appointments. maybe to the food market once I truly needed to move to the food market. but apart from that, I did not go anywhere," she stated.

however Goff observed she is not vaccinated towards Covid-19. She noted she believes Graysen received sick with Covid-19 after a Christmas gathering.

Now, Goff stated she's "really brooding about" getting vaccinated.

'exceptional numbers of children getting infected'

in barely two weeks, the variety of kids hospitalized with Covid-19 at Texas infants's has quadrupled.

And the surge will probably worsen with the spread of the Omicron variant, spoke of Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the middle for Vaccine building at Texas babies's.

"this is via a ways the king of transmissible Covid viruses. And we're seeing exceptional numbers of youngsters getting contaminated and going into babies's hospitals," Hotez noted.

On proper of that, "we have now simply executed a bad job of vaccinating our children throughout the nation," he said.

among the Covid-19 patients hospitalized at Texas infants's, "they're getting loads of respiratory signs ... pneumonia, desiring respiratory help to aid them breathe better," referred to Dr. Melanie Kitagawa, the clinic's transitional ICU clinical director.

whereas early stories imply Omicron motives less severe disease than the Delta variant, Omicron is lots extra contagious.

And that capability extra infants may be hospitalized, talked about Dr. Jim Versalovic, pathologist-in-chief at Texas infants's.

"The difficulty is that with so many toddlers and adults contaminated, in spite of the fact that the percent hospitalization fee is decrease, we could see greater toddlers hospitalized over a really short period of time," he noted. "And that actually places a stress on our health care components."

CNN's Bonney Kapp and Michelle Krupa contributed to this report.