Frontline workers, families share heartache of caring for young children hospitalized with COVID

At Dayton Children's, an influx of COVID-19 patients are coming in for care.

With coronavirus infections soaring to record-setting levels, an unprecedented number of virus-positive children are now entering hospitals.

Eight-month-old Enaeshya Edley is one of the 300 children now hospitalized for COVID-19 in Ohio at Dayton Children’s Hospital.

“I am very scared. I am terribly scared,” her mother, Jackie Kerby, told ABC News on Thursday. “Is her body going to be able to fight this?”

Kerby said she initially brought her daughter, who was premature at birth and is underweight, to another hospital after she developed a high fever. However, after sitting in the waiting room for six hours, Kerby left to care for Enaeshya at home.