Thread by @Loretta_Torrago

I have a question for people attempting to downplay the CDC report on hospitalized children. 🧵

WTAF is wrong with you?

First, it tells us that hospitalized kids get very, very sick indeed. 33% needed ICU care. 5% needed mechanical ventilation. So I ask again, if you are downplaying the CDC report:

WTAF is wrong with you?

Second, it doesn't imply "only" 204 kids were hospitalized. The CDC's data is from Covid-Net & is limited to certain states.

But kids aren't supposed to be hospitalized *at all* so if you are downplaying this again:

WTAF is wrong with you?

https://twitter.com/joshmich/status/1400873888586813440

Third, the CDC report does not establish or confirm that hospitalizations are "overcounted" since the report doesn't look into undercounting which would offset the numbers. But, more importantly, kids aren't supposed to be hospitalized *at all* so again:

WTAF is wrong with you?

Fourth, yes, hospitalizations have since come down. Thankfully. But that does not mean that at some point they did not go up in a way that we should all be worried about. So again, if you are downplaying this:

WTAF is wrong with you?

The fact that so many people pretend it is some sort of intellectual virtue to downplay illness & death, is making me rethink any return to normal.
Not because I am afraid of normal, but because I have been newly informed of how callous a large number of people actually are.

I owe the point that children shouldn't be hospitalized at all to @ENirenberg who made that point in terms of children dying in this beautiful and brutal thread.

https://twitter.com/ENirenberg/status/1399756458519150592