2aguy
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NBC ran a story about the shocking number of children and covid infections....
Then, you look deeper....and you can get the truth....
I’m not going to sugarcoat this and say that a doubling of the number of children hospitalized withCOVID isn’t disturbing (and the “with” is important, as we’ll discuss in a moment).
But we’re talking about 1,933 children here. That’s not 1,933 children in one city or one county or even one state. That’s in the entire country of 330 million people. And more than 73 million of those Americans are under the age of 18. That works out to a hospitalization rate of .00000026.
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Yes, you read that correctly. Following the guidance of the CDC, hospitals are now testing virtually everyone who is admitted for any reason for COVID, including children. And they are reporting the total number of people who test positive. What that means, as is finally made clear at the end of the article, is that the numbers being reported reflect the total number of children who tested positive when being admitted to the hospital no matter what they were admitted for.
That “doubling” of the number of children admitted to hospitals wasn’t the number of kids who were hospitalized for COVID, It’s the number that were hospitalized with COVID, no matter the reason for the hospitalization.
If your kid has a sniffly nose but then breaks her leg while snow sledding in the back yard and you take her to the hospital, when she tests positive for COVID upon admission, she gets added to that total figure being cited by NBC News.
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In short, it does not appear that there is a sudden explosion of children being struck down by the Omicron variant and needing to be hospitalized because of it. In fact, it appears to be quite the opposite.
Then, you look deeper....and you can get the truth....
I’m not going to sugarcoat this and say that a doubling of the number of children hospitalized withCOVID isn’t disturbing (and the “with” is important, as we’ll discuss in a moment).
But we’re talking about 1,933 children here. That’s not 1,933 children in one city or one county or even one state. That’s in the entire country of 330 million people. And more than 73 million of those Americans are under the age of 18. That works out to a hospitalization rate of .00000026.
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Yes, you read that correctly. Following the guidance of the CDC, hospitals are now testing virtually everyone who is admitted for any reason for COVID, including children. And they are reporting the total number of people who test positive. What that means, as is finally made clear at the end of the article, is that the numbers being reported reflect the total number of children who tested positive when being admitted to the hospital no matter what they were admitted for.
That “doubling” of the number of children admitted to hospitals wasn’t the number of kids who were hospitalized for COVID, It’s the number that were hospitalized with COVID, no matter the reason for the hospitalization.
If your kid has a sniffly nose but then breaks her leg while snow sledding in the back yard and you take her to the hospital, when she tests positive for COVID upon admission, she gets added to that total figure being cited by NBC News.
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In short, it does not appear that there is a sudden explosion of children being struck down by the Omicron variant and needing to be hospitalized because of it. In fact, it appears to be quite the opposite.