hospitalized in august, according to the cdc that number correctly referred to children hospitalized with covid since the pandemic began. in actuality, 783 children were admitted to texas hospitals with covid between july 1st-august 9th of this year. so we did the math appeared to the original claim 828 hospitalizations a day where it was really 19 a day. not bad, they were only off by a factor of 43. if we are being forced to take a vaccine and to mask up and to enter a business or restaurant, and if kids are being told to mask in school where they won't have any school experience at all, and if our lives continue to be upside down, the least we should demand is the truth. something that has been missing for most of the pandemic. join me now is harvard medical school professor extraordinaire