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NYT Rectracts Number of Children Hospitalized by Covid-19 (From 900K to 63K)

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I confirmed via CDC website that total hospitalization for ages 0-17 in the US is indeed 63k from Aug 2020 to present (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admis...).

It is difficult for me to not feel that there was intent to mislead with the 900k number, especially from a NYT reporter who should know better to check the sources and verify the numbers. The data isn’t hidden away or needed any tallying—-it is literally there on CDC’s website. It is incidents like this that erodes public’s trust in mainstream media and paints them as having “agendas”. I truly hope the NYT takes this seriously and do a better job at checking the numbers.

Note: I haven’t checked, but I wonder if the 900k number is for global children hospitalizations. Although IMO that number would be difficult to get accurately.

Too late. Policy has been made and polls gauging the publics perceptions of said policies have already been taken. Now the pundits can use the fake polls from the retracted news items to justify ever more increasing regulation of daily life.

The error was made Wendsday and corrected Thursday.

The wrong number is suspiciously close to total hospitalizations.

It doesn't matter. People don't read the old new York times. They read the current day and share that information with friends.

Even with the new numbers, covid has hospitalized and killed more children (in the US) in just about one year than polio was doing before WW2. The old numbers aside, there's plenty of reason for concern at the new numbers.

The CDC disagrees with you. Go to https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm... and click on "Weekly Number of Deaths by Age". There is no observable difference in the 0-25 age group between 2020, 2021, and the previous years.

The equivalent data for Europe are at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps, which I find easier to use. You will see that the excess mortality in the 0-14 age group is actually negative in 2020 and marginally positive in 2021 so far (went down a bit earlier in the year and now is back up a bit).

Please provide a source. There is absolutely no truth to what you are stating. Id like to see where you got that nonsense information from.

Agree. In US, 500 kids have died. That's in over a year, and in a time period which didn't include vaccine.

Every year 800 kids die from drowning. About 200 kids die from the flue. Driving kills 4000. Suffocation 1500.

The risk to kids is very very small (especially considering vaccine can probably prevent almost all the above deaths), and certainly less than many other risks we tolerate.

And these figures are all _with_ not _of_. A subset of the persons who have died with covid died of it, for young people it's likely that its a fairly small subset.

(See also: https://www.skyhinews.com/news/coroner-state-included-a-murd... on official figures including anyone who died within 30 days of a positive covid test, even when their deaths were from auto-accidents, homicide, or suicide)

It is more than from flu and there are most hospitalizations than from flu. Besides flu could not spread with current restrictions, covid can.

It is huge amount to die from a illness and it is so limited mostly because of restrictions. There were just few deaths from flu in the same period.

US just has stupid amount of violent deaths, either homicide or car accidents. 3 times more for vehicle accidents and 10 or times more for homicide than in other countries.

For example car accidents from million in 2019 Below 15 US: 21 Germany: 7 15-24: US: 139 Germany: 49

This is only counting mortality but there are also hospitalizations and prolonged illness. Fortunately it is very huge but it is not small either.

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