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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This piece does a pretty good job summarizing the need to flatten the pediatric curve. And it links to another piece that lays out what good mitigation efforts look like — we can keep kids in school if we quarantine *entire classrooms* and rapidly test. But we can’t expect masks alone to do the herculean effort of protecting our kids under an exceptionally contagious virus.

https://insidemedicine.bulletin.com/2370680396397133[/quote]

He lost me with this disingenuous footnote:
“Some may notice that other sections of the CDC’s influenza website estimate that far more children are hospitalized for influenza than the numbers used here. That’s because the CDC takes raw numbers of flu hospitalizations reported and then multiplies that by around 25 to get its final estimates. Around 45% of this multiplier accounts for the percent of hospitals the CDC's influenza network covers. The other 55% is meant to compensate for under-reporting and false negative tests. Such adjustments are not being made for Covid-19. Also, the Covid-19 data being reported by HHS that we used to make the visualization above covers most, but not all, US hospitals that accept pediatric patients. Therefore, the real number of pediatric Covid-19 hospitalizations is likely a bit higher than even these figures.”

This completely ignores the fact that ALL children coming into the hospital for ANYTHING are tested for Covid, which isn’t the case for the flu or other respiratory infections. This is the reason why studies have shown that at least 40% of “Covid” hospitalizations weren’t because of Covid at all and the children were asymptomatic. He completely ignores that fact in order to argue that Covid hospitalization numbers of children are higher because we don’t compensate for underreporting in the way we do for the flu, when the testing situation is completely different and suffers from the opposite problem.[/quote]

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