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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A look at Florida pediatric hospitalization from CDC data,  July 2020 through July 2021, shows:
1. a steep increase in the last month
2. a shift in March 2021 from hospitalizations of mostly children with pre-existing conditions to more and more otherwise healthy children.
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Hospitalization numbers look worse for COVID-19. But those numbers are inflated as a result of the CDC's reporting rules. The CDC requires every child admitted to a hospital to be tested for the coronavirus.

Dr. Roshni Mathew, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says experience at her hospital found that 45% of the time, a child who tested positive for the coronavirus was not actually sick with COVID-19. The findings have been published online in the journal Hospital Pediatrics.

In those cases, hospitalization was due to "a completely unrelated diagnosis, like appendicitis or femur fracture or something else," she says.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/25/997467734/childrens-risk-of-serious-illness-from-covid-19-is-as-low-as-it-is-for-the-flu

So, in fact, any child admitted to a hospital is tested for covid regardless of clinical symptoms.  If the child is positive, they are then labeled as a covid-associated admission.  #misinformation

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