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Can't just dismiss the dramatic rise in children hospitalized for covid as "anecdotes". In New York, hospitalizations among kids quadrupled. In Washington DC,

Can't just dismiss the dramatic rise in children hospitalized for covid as "anecdotes". In New York, hospitalizations among kids quadrupled. In Washington DC, children’s hospital admissions have roughly doubled. In Texas, children’s hospitalizations were described as “staggering”. In Alabama, cases were “like a rocket ship”. In Louisiana, one doctor said: “We’ve never seen anything like it.” In Ohio, one associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics critical care recently told ABC news: “We’re on fire.” Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/covid-hospitalizations-us-children-omicron-schools-hospitals https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/covid-hospit...

gilbetron 5y ago
Because an absolutely incredible increase in total cases, so of course hospitalizations are going up. However, it isn't going up unusually given the number of cases. Also, those numbers include kids in the hospital for other things, that test positive for covid. Finally, kids get put into the hospital quicker if they show issues with covid because that's what we do with kids if they are significantly affected by any pathogen.
- panarky 5y ago
  > it is anecdotes that are scaring people >> of course hospitalizations are going up It's not the anecdotes that are scaring people, it's the number of kids in hospitals that's scaring people.
timr 5y ago
> In New York, hospitalizations among kids quadrupled. In New York, hospitalizations among everyone more than quadrupled. So if kids quadrupled, they are doing better than average: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summary https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summ... Quotes about staggering, flaming rocket ships aside, if you don't bother to normalize your data to a meaningful baseline rate, you're either not capable of objectively analyzing the situation, or you're trying to mislead. (It's also worth pointing out that in NY, something like 40-50% of "Covid hospitalizations" are unrelated to Covid, per the state's own statistics [1]) [1] https://gothamist.com/news/new-preliminary-state-data-shows-half-people-nyc-hospitals-covid-19-were-admitted-other-reasons https://gothamist.com/news/new-preliminary-state-data-shows-...

gilbetron 5y ago

Because an absolutely incredible increase in total cases, so of course hospitalizations are going up. However, it isn't going up unusually given the number of cases. Also, those numbers include kids in the hospital for other things, that test positive for covid. Finally, kids get put into the hospital quicker if they show issues with covid because that's what we do with kids if they are significantly affected by any pathogen.

panarky 5y ago
> it is anecdotes that are scaring people >> of course hospitalizations are going up It's not the anecdotes that are scaring people, it's the number of kids in hospitals that's scaring people.

timr 5y ago

> In New York, hospitalizations among kids quadrupled. In New York, hospitalizations among everyone more than quadrupled. So if kids quadrupled, they are doing better than average: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summary https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summ... Quotes about staggering, flaming rocket ships aside, if you don't bother to normalize your data to a meaningful baseline rate, you're either not capable of objectively analyzing the situation, or you're trying to mislead. (It's also worth pointing out that in NY, something like 40-50% of "Covid hospitalizations" are unrelated to Covid, per the state's own statistics [1]) [1] https://gothamist.com/news/new-preliminary-state-data-shows-half-people-nyc-hospitals-covid-19-were-admitted-other-reasons https://gothamist.com/news/new-preliminary-state-data-shows-...