June 7th, 2021
Perhaps you've noticed that in recent days there's been a hysterical drive to make it appear that hospitalizations among children aged 12 to 17 are on some kind of unique rise (with the not particularly subtle subtext that the vaccination of people in this age group is suddenly very urgent).
I am sure that without even looking into the details, you knew this was nonsense.
We have too much experience with hysterical claims like these not to smell a rat.
And you were right.
One of my friends, who helped design my COVID charts quiz, debunked it. I am sharing the debunking, complete with charts, with you.
Here goes:
"The latest CDC MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) study released today is being used by major media outlets to suggest COVID hospitalizations are rising in 12-17 year old children -- except they aren't. The CDC's own data contradicts this. The CDC cherry-picked dates in their study to push a narrative.
"First, let's look at the time they cut off their study: April 24th. Based on the graph below, you do see increased hospitalization rates in 12-17 year olds from March to April 24th:
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Coincidentally, April 24th was also when hospitalizations peaked and declined for these age groups. Why did the CDC end their study right at this point, I wonder?
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"'Rising hospitalizations' also misses very important context - hospitalizations were rising in all age groups around this time frame in the spring -- even the most-vaccinated cohort (> 65) -- and at faster rates. Yet they use this study to justify why teen vaccinations are needed."
(TW note: In case you can't see the key in the graph below, the orange line on the top is 65 and over, the blue line is the overall number, and that dashed line at the bottom that barely registers at all is the terrible apocalypse of hospitalizations among the 12-17 age group that is supposed to make their vaccinations urgent.)
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"Something in this MMWR study that is worth mentioning, though: almost HALF (172 out of 376) of 'COVID' hospitalizations in this age group were likely there for something other than COVID -- further supporting the claim that child COVID hospitalization numbers are inflated.
"Additionally, of the 172 children admitted to the hospital, but not for COVID, over 44% were there for psychiatric care. This seems like a pretty alarming number, but we'd need to see what the baseline is for psychiatric admissions of adolescents.
"It's becoming increasingly obvious the CDC is not an unbiased, agenda-free scientific organization. Just a month ago it was found they let teachers unions influence school reopening guidance. Their reputation rightfully continues to quickly deteriorate."
Although at this point I expect every word out of these lying liars' mouths to be a lie, even I find myself breathless at the sheer audacity of it all, that they get away with making easily debunked claims time and again, and (for the most part) get away with it.
Bits and pieces of their stupid narrative are starting to fall away, though. Fauci's star was on the rise for a long time. But from his perch there was nowhere to go but down. And that has begun.
