Fauci "Counting children hospitalized with a broken-leg as COVID"

Dec 30, 2021 MSNBC, Dr. Anthony Fauci - the White House chief medical adviser, explained that statistics showing a large jump in the number of children hospitalized "with Covid" does not reflect children being hospitalized because:

“But the other important thing is that if you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with Covid as opposed to because of Covid, and what we mean by that

— if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for Covid.

— And they get counted as a Covid-hospitalized individual.

— When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that.

So, it’s over-counting the number of children who are, quote, ‘hospitalized with Covid,’ as opposed to because of Covid.”

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Dec 30, 2021 (Full Interview: MSNBC, 4mins 17secs)
Reduced Severity Of Omicron Illness Shifts Focus From Case Numbers To Hospitalizations
https://youtu.be/Aktzp4jSXY8

Viral Clip: Twitter, Dec 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1476710278096166917

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COVID KIDS OVER-BLOWN STATS
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Dec 30, 2021: https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/30/anthony-fauci-covid-19-coronavirus-children-overcounting-hospitalization-omicron/
“A week and a half ago 2-3 kids were coming in with COVID per day, and now we have close to 30,” he said. “Not all of them are there primarily for COVID — they might come in for a broken leg — and test positive for COVID while they’re here.”
On the whole, less than one percent of children hospitalized with COVID-19 die from the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and less than 3% of total COVID-19 hospitalizations are in people under age 18.

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Research Suggests Number of Kids Hospitalized for COVID Is Overcounted
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“Taken together, these 2 studies underscore the importance of clearly distinguishing between children hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 found on universal testing versus those hospitalized for COVID-19 disease.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/study-number-of-kids-hospitalized-for-covid-is-overcounted.html

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Study 1: “For COVID” or “With COVID”:
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Conducted at a children’s hospital in Northern California, among the 117 pediatric SARS-CoV2-positive patients hospitalized between May 10, 2020, and February 10, 2021, the authors concluded that 53 of them (or 45 percent) “were unlikely to be caused by SARS-CoV-2.” The reasons for hospital admission for these “unlikely” patients included surgeries, cancer treatment, a psychiatric episode, urologic issues, and various infections such as cellulitis, among other diagnoses. The study also found that 46 (or 39.3 percent) of patients coded as SARS-CoV2 positive were asymptomatic. In other words, despite patients’ testing positive for the virus as part of the hospital’s universal screening, COVID-19 symptoms were absent, therefore it was not the reason for the hospitalization. Any instance where the link between a positive SARS-CoV2 test and cause of admission was uncertain the authors erred toward giving a “likely” categorization.

Classification of SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalizations in Children - American Academy of Hospital Pediatrics - Volume 11, Issue 8 - August 2021
https://publications.aap.org/hospitalpediatrics/article/11/8/e151/179740/For-COVID-or-With-COVID-Classification-of-SARS-CoV

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Study 2: “For COVID” or “With COVID”:
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In the second study, at the fifth-largest children’s hospital in the country, out of 146 records listing patients as positive for SARS-CoV-2 from May 1, 2020, to September 30, 2020, the authors classified 58 (40 percent) as having “incidental” diagnosis, meaning there was no documentation of COVID-19 symptoms prior to hospitalization. Like the first study, and as has been typical around the nation, this hospital implemented universal testing of inpatients for SARS-CoV-2. An example of incidentally SARS-CoV-2-positive patients are those who came to the hospital because of fractures. Patients who may have had COVID-19 symptoms but who had a clearly documented alternative reason for them, such as a child with abdominal pain and fever found to be related to an abdominal abscess, were also deemed to have incidental diagnosis. The study categorized 68 patients, or 47 percent, as “potentially symptomatic,” which was defined as when “COVID-19 was not the primary reason for admission for these patients, and COVID-19 alone did not directly require hospitalization without the concomitant condition.” Examples of these patients were those with acute appendicitis, since that condition includes gastrointestinal symptoms that may also present in COVID-19.

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CDC Corrects Inflated COVID KID Deaths
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March 17, 2022: CDC Says It Accidentally Inflated Children’s COVID Death Numbers In ‘Coding Logic Error’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-says-it-accidentally-inflated-children-s-covid-death-numbers-in-coding-logic-error/ar-AAVfD63