2 new studies show hospitalization rates of kids in 2 CA hospitals overestimated by at least 40% Why? "incidental diagnosis" eg, child at hosp for fracture, gets routine covid test, is (+) but asymptomatic. Incorrectly counted as hospitalized *for* covidhttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/study-number-of-kids-hospitalized-for-covid-is-overcounted.html …
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I’ll bet it is. If you screen every hospital admission for SarsCoV2 nasopharyngeal carriage by pcr you will inevitably overcount hospitalizations+deaths. Unless the driver was severe pneumonia, ARDS, or pulmonary embolism, then the default should be hospitalized “with” not “for”
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Copy of response to Berenson because he, as usual, misrepresented so it's here: "Adults are a much larger and diverse category compared to children. That’s how they’re different—harder to sort through due to sheer size if nothing else."
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How do you know it’s not the same in adults?
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Expected more? Don't think it's the same with adults, say in a nursing home that will receive some $8k if it's a covid death? Don't think there might be overcounting? Oh yeah and the changes to the death certificates?
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Hospitals do not a get a bump for treating children anyway. It is for Medicare only.
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