>>14037270In their study of pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations in San Francisco, Kushner et al. (2020) found the following:
“Of 117 hospitalizations, 46 (39.3%) were asymptomatic, 33 (28.2%) had mild to moderate disease, 9 (7.7%) had severe illness, and 15 (12.8%) had critical illness (weighted ?: 0.82). A total of 14 (12%) patients had multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. A total of 53 (45%) admissions were categorized as unlikely to be caused by SARS-CoV-2 (?: 0.78).”
So, maybe half of all reported paediatric ‘COVID hospitalizations’ were not caused by COVID? Have they been overestimating the disease burden the whole time bros? What are the implications?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34011566/