Thread: So CNN did this report citing the American Academy of Pediatrics suggesting a massive increase in cases among children. Something seemed off about the numbers so I decided to take a look.
cnn.com/2021/09/07/hea…
First, the very report still showed hospitalization and death rates among kids as incredibly low. Despite being unvaccinated and reports of hundreds of thousands ofcases, kids made up pretty close to 0 deaths.
But then looking at the pure number of case increases shows such a massive increase that it doesn't make sense purely w just more kids getting sick.
23K on the week of July 15th to over 200K in a week just barely a week later?
That is until you realize that a lot of schools now have testing requirements and that represents kids testing right before schools start. In other words, many of these are likely asymptomatic cases that usually wouldn't be tested.
That's important context being left out.
Now obviously we don't want kids getting Covid-19 at all, but there is a big difference between suggestions that kids are specifically being hit with a massive new wave and the data is just now catching a lot of kids that usually wouldn't notice they had it.
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