
In New York, the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 has quadrupled since early December. CDC numbers show only around 14% of kids ages 5 to 11 are vaccinated. Dr. Stanley Perlman, a pediatric infectious diseases physician, joins CBSN with more on that and how hospitals are coping with the surge in the Omicron variant.
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Quadrupled?
4 times 0 is 0.
The actual numbers are so low that talk “quadrupled” rather than actual numbers.
That’s what your math teacher told you, but not according to the CDC and Health Minister. Here’s an example: “CDC numbers show only around 14% of kids ages 5 to 11 are vaccinated”. They drop those who got the first two vaccine and voila 14% vaccinated.
So look at the REAL numbers…from 22 it is now 109. A drop in the bucket when dealing in thousands, but it’s still 109 children serious enough to be hospitalized. Has everyone forgotten how fast cases spiraled up last year before we started taking this seriously?
I spoke with my cardiologist in the hospital last week and he told me the numbers being reported might be true but they are not honest. Every patient entering the hospital is tested for covid and anyone who tests positive will be labeled a covid patient even if he came in for a burn or an infection etc. So, as the percentage of the general population who test positive increases so too will the number of regular asymptomatic hospital patients who test positive increase.
Did your cardiologist also tell you to get vaccinated, or not?
Forget the published numbers, what did he tell you about protecting oneself during this epidemic?