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Hospitals Are Overcounting Children Admitted for Covid

by Michael Curzon
20 May 2021 11:55 AM

Almost half of the children in hospital recorded as having needed inpatient treatment for Covid may have actually needed treatment for something else and happened to test positive, a new U.S. study suggests. The MailOnline has the story.

Out of 117 children who tested positive were treated as inpatients in Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, 53 were likely not sick enough from the virus itself to need inpatient treatment. 

Children younger than 18 make up only 12.4% of U.S. Covid cases, and less than a fraction of a per cent of the total number of deaths from the virus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show. 

An estimated one to three per cent of Covid hospitalisations for Covid are among children – but the new Stanford study suggests the real figure may be even lower…

The new study, published Wednesday in the journal Hospital Pediatrics, took a closer look at data on 117 children who were either hospitalized for a Covid-linked syndrome – MIS-C, which occurs after kids are infected with coronavirus – or who tested positive after arriving at the hospital. 

The children were hospitalized between May 10th, 2020 and February 10th, 2021. 

About 40% of those children were completely asymptomatic for Covid. 

Another 28% displayed only symptoms of mild-to-moderate coronavirus infections. 

Nine kids became severely ill from Covid, including three who probably were not hospitalized because of the infection, but became seriously sick with Covid during their stay, their medical charts suggest. 

Only 15 out of the 117 children were determined to be critically ill (about 13%). Fourteen of them were likely brought to hospitals specifically because of their Covid symptoms. 

One child was admitted to the hospital to undergo surgery for a congenital heart problem. They had no symptoms when they arrived at the hospital, but later tested positive and fell critically ill, likely due to the combination of Covid and their heart condition. 

Fourteen children were diagnosed with MIS-C – multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children – which has been linked to Covid. These children may not have gotten severely ill during the acute phase of infection with coronavirus, but it set off a chain of immune responses that brought on the potentially life-threatening inflammation. 

All-in-all, only a little over half of the kids who were logged as hospitalised for Covid were actually sick enough from the virus itself to need inpatient treatment for it. 

The other 45% were likely hospitalised for something else and just happened to test positive for Covid. 

Worth reading in full.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

Who’d have guessed?

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Jo Starlin
Jo Starlin
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Remember the “ward full of sick children” back in the winter? The one that didn’t exist, that some nurse just made up?

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago

I don’t know what criteria they use in the US to classify “covid patients” but in the UK I do not believe there is any distinction made in the stats between those admitted for other reasons who happen to test positive (PCR) and those who have actual covid symptoms (and within those with covid symptoms, which were admitted for other reasons and caught covid in hospital). You’d think this information would be absolutely key, but I have never found it nor seen it referred to, and I am pretty sure JHB asked some minister about it and they said we don’t have those stats.

An acquaintance of mine has a toddler who shut his hand in a door and needed a small surgical procedure – they got PCR tested.

Last edited 3 years ago by transmissionofflame
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Any visit to a hospital and they will try to ram a stick up your nose. And this is personal experience.

I told one doctor that testing people who had no symptoms was madness, he then trotted out the Asymptomatic routine.

Obviously he got the benefit of my extensive research.

Forcefully and bluntly.

Duckin idiot.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago

It was also found also in the UK if you were being checked in the hospital and tested positive and then being transferred to another department you were counted twice for Covid. It’s the only way they can keep the Covid Lie ongoing.

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alw
alw
3 years ago

Scamvariant, Scamdemic. Just one big lie from beginning to end.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  alw

Plus: Scareiant(s).

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

Lies, damm lies and statistics!!!!

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

So very sick children were admitted to hospital, and there caught Covid, which killed them? Right?

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago

From article:

Children younger than 18 make up only 12.4% of U.S. Covid cases, and less than a fraction of a per cent of the total number of deaths from the virus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show. 

An estimated one to three per cent of Covid hospitalisations for Covid are among children – but the new Stanford study suggests the real figure may be even lower…

… I’m inclined to believe that only the lower-range figure – 1 percent – of hospitalizations are among children. But this story says this figure should be cut in half – so it’s probably 0.5 percent (1 1/2 of 1 percent) of hospitalized cases.

From some quick research, I learned that 24.9 percent of the U.S. population is 0-19.

Bottom-line: So an age cohort that represents about 1/4 of the population has produced about 1/2 of 1 percent of hospitalized COVID CASES.

In contrast, the age cohort of 85 and over represents only 1.99 percent of the entire population. However, this age cohort has produced the MOST Covid deaths and hospitalizations of any other age cohort (the plurality age cohort). In the UK, I believe 70 percent of COVID deaths have been among those 75 and over.

Anyway, an age group that makes up about 2 percent of the population accounts for at least 50 percent of all COVID deaths. An age cohort that represents a quarter of the population has accounted for less than 1/2 of 1 percent of deaths.

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Jo Starlin
Jo Starlin
3 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Over 60 million people aged 14 and under in the US. Total “deaths with covid”, 134.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(21)00066-3/fulltext

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Mike Yeadon
Mike Yeadon
3 years ago

LIES
LIES
LIES
From our government had advisors who are
LIARS
LIARS
LIARS

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