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Public Health Ontario (PHO) using different age categories for updated RV tool data
PHO now combines children <1 into a 0-4 age group while before they had separate <1 and 1-4 age categories which makes a big difference in how the impact of children is perceived. 🧵1/
PHO now combines children <1 into a 0-4 age group while before they had separate <1 and 1-4 age categories which makes a big difference in how the impact of children is perceived. 🧵1/
PHO stopped updating COVID-19 hospital admissions and now provide bed occupancy in their recent Respiratory Virus Tool update which uses different age categories ( ). 2/publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-An…
You can see from the previous Ontario hospitalization rate by age group that children <1 were hospitalized at 81.8 per 100k population which is more than age 60-79 at 77.2 per 100k population. The 1-4 age group is massively smaller at 7.7 per 100k population. 3/
In the PHO bed occupancy data, you can barely see the 0-4 category compared to the 60-79 age group while infants <1 on their own had higher rates than 60-79. 4/
When combined with kids 1-4 the impact of hospitalization on infants <1 is almost completely lost and parents may not realize how high risk infants are for hospitalization from COVID-19. 5/
When you just look at children, you can see the bed occupancy rate for ages 0-4 are the majority of hospitalization per 100k population for kids < 18, most of which would be coming from the <1 category that is now hidden. 6/
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