Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

NY Times corrected article that said nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalized w/COVID in US when actual number is 63,000 + op-ed cited data showing unvaccinated child has less risk of being infected w/virus than a fully vaccinated 70-year-old.

https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1448045212350271489

NYT Vastly Overstates Number of Children Hospitalized With COVID, as Data Show COVID Risk for Kids ‘Not Extraordinary Threat’

10-12-21

The New York Times, in an article published Oct. 6, overstated the number of children hospitalized with COVID in the U.S. by more than 800,000. The Times acknowledged the mistake, and other errors in the same article, the following day by adding a correction to the end of the original piece.

The Times initially reported “nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalized” with COVID since the pandemic began. The corrected article, updated Oct. 7, states “more than 63,000 children were hospitalized with COVID-19 from August 2020 to October 2021.”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-york-times-overstates-number-children-hospitalized-covid/

According to Fox News, the original Times article, “A New Vaccine Strategy for Children: Just One Dose, for Now,” by Apoorva Mandavilli, science and health reporter, was “peppered with errors” before major changes were made to the story.

In addition to overstating the number of children hospitalized with COVID, the Times falsely reported actions taken by regulators in Sweden and Denmark — who paused Moderna’s COVID vaccine for younger age groups last week citing reports of myocarditis — and botched the timing of a scheduled U.S. Food and Drug Administration meeting to discuss the authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old......