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by jtc331 1636 days ago
Even Anthony Fauci, hardly a COVID denier, recently explained on MSNBC that many of those hospitalizations of kids are incidentally COVID positive while the child is actually in the hospital for (his examples) things link appendicitis and a broken leg.

Furthermore why case counts are skyrocketing (literally the highest ever seen in the pandemic) hospitalizations are only up 14% and deaths are down 7%.

https://www.air.tv/watch?v=99n-gANuSf6pHQ8A_QQy1Q
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jacquesm 1636 days ago
> hospitalizations are only up 14% and deaths are down 7%

For now. Let's see in three weeks from now, and let's hope that it stays that way. The differences in demographics between the populations that we have data on and the ones that are now affected are significant enough that I don't think we should party just yet.

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vitus 1636 days ago
Beyond that, deaths lag behind hospitalizations by several weeks for obvious reasons -- most people who get sick enough to die from the virus will end up going to the hospital first.
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