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NY Mag: Pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations may have been grossly inflated

with COVID-19″ and “hospitalized because of COVID-19.” Two new studies conclude that as many as 40% of all pediatric hospitalizations chalked up as severe cases of COVID-19 might not have had anything to do with the pandemic after all, NY Magazine reports this morning: The reported number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, one of the primary metrics for tracking the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, was grossly inflated for children in California hospitals, two research papers published Wednesday concluded. The papers, both published in the journal Hospital Pediatrics, found that pediatric hospitalizations for COVID-19 were overcounted by at least 40 percent, carrying potential implications for nationwide figures.

Studies Suggest Child Hospitalization Numbers From COVID Are Inflated

Studies Suggest Child Hospitalization Numbers From COVID Are Inflated On 5/19/21 at 11:43 AM EDT Hospital Pediatrics have concluded that COVID-19 hospitalizations among children have been inflated by at least 40 percent. The papers, published on Wednesday, found that pediatric hospitalizations were grossly overcounted in California hospitals and infectious disease experts predict the findings to be reflective of other hospitals across the country. There is no reason to think these findings would be exclusive to California. This sort of retrospective chart review will likely reveal the same findings across the country, Dr. Monica Ghandi, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of California, San Fransisco told

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