It is difficult for me to not feel that there was intent to mislead with the 900k number, especially from a NYT reporter who should know better to check the sources and verify the numbers. The data isn’t hidden away or needed any tallying—-it is literally there on CDC’s website. It is incidents like this that erodes public’s trust in mainstream media and paints them as having “agendas”. I truly hope the NYT takes this seriously and do a better job at checking the numbers.
Note: I haven’t checked, but I wonder if the 900k number is for global children hospitalizations. Although IMO that number would be difficult to get accurately.
Too late. Policy has been made and polls gauging the publics perceptions of said policies have already been taken. Now the pundits can use the fake polls from the retracted news items to justify ever more increasing regulation of daily life.
Even with the new numbers, covid has hospitalized and killed more children (in the US) in just about one year than polio was doing before WW2. The old numbers aside, there's plenty of reason for concern at the new numbers.
The equivalent data for Europe are at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps, which I find easier to use. You will see that the excess mortality in the 0-14 age group is actually negative in 2020 and marginally positive in 2021 so far (went down a bit earlier in the year and now is back up a bit).
Agree. In US, 500 kids have died. That's in over a year, and in a time period which didn't include vaccine.
Every year 800 kids die from drowning. About 200 kids die from the flue. Driving kills 4000. Suffocation 1500.
The risk to kids is very very small (especially considering vaccine can probably prevent almost all the above deaths), and certainly less than many other risks we tolerate.
And these figures are all _with_ not _of_. A subset of the persons who have died with covid died of it, for young people it's likely that its a fairly small subset.
It is huge amount to die from a illness and it is so limited mostly because of restrictions. There were just few deaths from flu in the same period.
US just has stupid amount of violent deaths, either homicide or car accidents. 3 times more for vehicle accidents and 10 or times more for homicide than in other countries.
For example car accidents from million in 2019
Below 15
US: 21
Germany: 7
15-24:
US: 139
Germany: 49
This is only counting mortality but there are also hospitalizations and prolonged illness. Fortunately it is very huge but it is not small either.
It is difficult for me to not feel that there was intent to mislead with the 900k number, especially from a NYT reporter who should know better to check the sources and verify the numbers. The data isn’t hidden away or needed any tallying—-it is literally there on CDC’s website. It is incidents like this that erodes public’s trust in mainstream media and paints them as having “agendas”. I truly hope the NYT takes this seriously and do a better job at checking the numbers.
Note: I haven’t checked, but I wonder if the 900k number is for global children hospitalizations. Although IMO that number would be difficult to get accurately.