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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a continuing problem with the numbers of child hospitalizations being reported.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-tribune-erroneously-reports-5800-children-hospitalized-covid

Yes, this link is Fox News, but most MSM isn't sharing this.  The number of children hospitalized for COVID over the last week in Texas was reported by the Texas Tribune was 5,800.  When that's the total cumulative number since the start of COVID.  This was only later corrected after being noticed by a Bloomberg reporter, but after it was picked up and run by others, including a tweet from a Washington Post blogger.  Just a couple of weeks ago the same thing happened when a county health department official tweeted an inflated number, picked up by national media, and later corrected by the health department official.

This isn't to say hospitalizations of kids isn't increasing, and concerning.  But reporters just aren't doing the basics.  [/quote]

Like this article
https://www.dmagazine.com/healthcare-business/2021/08/north-texas-pediatric-covid-19-hospitalizations-are-up-600-percent-since-june/

People in Dallas are losing their minds about no pediatric ICU beds.  The articles are all like this…70+ total pediatric hospital cases in Dallas…but, no mention of how many of these kids are in those full ICUs.

At least this article hints that the ICU issue isn’t because of covid, but instead RSV (“ Handling the COVID-19 cases would not be as much of a stressor on the hospital’s emergency department and intensive care units if they weren’t also experiencing an unprecedented surge of other severe respiratory viruses”)

This article also hints that these patients are mostly teens “ Teens who are eligible to be vaccinated are also the ones who are most likely to have an intense infection, says Dr. Nicholas Rister, an infectious disease expert at Cook Children’s. “Teenagers behave more like adults regarding COVID, and the younger kids are going to do exceptionally well,” he says. “Older teenagers especially have the same risk factors as adults.””

Most of the Dallas articles do not include those hints…instead they are written to imply that ICUs are stuffed with preschooler covid patients, sending the message that parents of small children should panic.  The real message should be to watch out for RSV and get your teen vaccinated.
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I've posted before but my MIL is a nurse in a pediatric ER in the Baltimore area.  She's seeing mostly RSV in the younger set (younger than 5) and it's more severe than the covid cases in that population. Covid is mostly in teens. And the pediatric ICUs in this area are full of RSV.[/quote]

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