Anonymous wrote:TheHill.com August 19 2021
As child hospitalizations rise, leaders must act now

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/568290-as-child-hospitalizations-rise-leaders-must-act-now

2000+ US children are being hospitalized for COVID every week, a rate rising rapidly.

CDC:

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Anonymous wrote:They’re obviously related! Covid, RSV and pediatric hospitalizations. But we may never know exactly how because the cdc is counting every kid who comes in for something entirely unrelated and tests positive for covid on admission as a “pediatric covid hospitalization.” My SIL is an er nurse in Dallas and she confirms that there are a whole lot of asymptomatic children making it onto that list.

How are they asymptomatic if they are in the hospital? If they were asymptomatic, you would not even know they had Covid and they would likely not be in the hospital. Or if they are asymptomatic and tested positive for Covid, they would still not be hospitalized because they are asymptomatic. So your logic makes no sense.

Kid gets admitted for something totally unrelated (broken leg, mental health crisis). All admissions are tested for Covid. Kid turns up an asymptomatic positive. Kid gets added to the pediatric hospitalizations and case counts for the area.

Kid would never have been there for just covid.

There have been at least 2 studies on this phenomenon.

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Anonymous wrote:RSV without COV.iD is not taking up most of the beds. RSV can be serious for infants but it doesn’t normally land elementary and high schoolers in the ICU. RSV is also something that can coexist with other viruses. My son had RSV and Influenza at the same time when he was 18 months old. I guess if I was an influenza denier I could say that the RSV spiked his temp and gave him the seizure and the flu was a nothing burger because Tucker told me not to believe in the flu. However then I would be an hello and a bad parent.

Ahem:

Some of the physicians estimated that there were about as many pediatric hospitalizations from RSV as there were from COVID, and some have seen cases of children infected with both. It doesn’t appear that COVID puts RSV patients at higher risk or vice versa.

From that noted right wing publication, Slate.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/austin-texas-children-covid-risk.html

Anonymous wrote:Do these stories ever provide information on the vaccination status of the parents or the patients themselves (if they are 12+)?

I realize that here in the DMV these stories are taken to push toward school closures, but it seems like these are really stories about parents (and possible eligible kids) not being vaccinated. Particularly now, when school isn't in session yet in many of these places.

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Anonymous wrote:A 16 year old just died of covid.

unvaccinated, almost certainly.

Anonymous wrote:RSV without COV.iD is not taking up most of the beds. RSV can be serious for infants but it doesn’t normally land elementary and high schoolers in the ICU. RSV is also something that can coexist with other viruses. My son had RSV and Influenza at the same time when he was 18 months old. I guess if I was an influenza denier I could say that the RSV spiked his temp and gave him the seizure and the flu was a nothing burger because Tucker told me not to believe in the flu. However then I would be an hello and a bad parent.

Some of the physicians estimated that there were about as many pediatric hospitalizations from RSV as there were from COVID, and some have seen cases of children infected with both. It doesn’t appear that COVID puts RSV patients at higher risk or vice versa.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re obviously related! Covid, RSV and pediatric hospitalizations. But we may never know exactly how because the cdc is counting every kid who comes in for something entirely unrelated and tests positive for covid on admission as a “pediatric covid hospitalization.” My SIL is an er nurse in Dallas and she confirms that there are a whole lot of asymptomatic children making it onto that list.

How are they asymptomatic if they are in the hospital? If they were asymptomatic, you would not even know they had Covid and they would likely not be in the hospital. Or if they are asymptomatic and tested positive for Covid, they would still not be hospitalized because they are asymptomatic. So your logic makes no sense.

Anonymous wrote:They’re obviously related! Covid, RSV and pediatric hospitalizations. But we may never know exactly how because the cdc is counting every kid who comes in for something entirely unrelated and tests positive for covid on admission as a “pediatric covid hospitalization.” My SIL is an er nurse in Dallas and she confirms that there are a whole lot of asymptomatic children making it onto that list.