Propaganda puppet Reuters — apparently made up its own COVID omicron data — alleging "concerns" about surging COVID hospitalizations among US children

31 December 2021

How do these clowns get away with . . .

. . . their fearmongering dreck, day after day?

Reuters published the following on 29 December 2021 — but without providing a link to its alleged Centers for Disease Control and Prevention source material:

Within weeks, the Omicron variant has fueled thousands of new COVID-19 hospitalizations among U.S. children, raising new concerns about how the many unvaccinated Americans under the age of 18 will fare in the new surge.

The seven-day-average number of daily hospitalizations for children between Dec. 21 and Dec. 27 is up more than 58% nationwide in the past week to 334, compared to around 19% for all age groups, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. Fewer than 25% of the 74 million Americans under 18 are vaccinated, according to the CDC.

The links that Reuters does provide (in its essentially hysteria-provoking story) do not address the pediatric question.

And one included citation (for hospitalizations) even contradicts Reuters' fearmongering theme:

COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations are "comparatively" low as the highly infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said on Wednesday as cases in the United States reached a record high.

"In a few short weeks Omicron has rapidly increased across the country, and we expect will continue to circulate in the coming weeks. While cases have substantially increased from last week, hospitalizations and deaths remain comparatively low right now," she said, referring to overall cases.

Let's look at the CDC's data

Even today (31 December 2021) — when Reuters' alleged "surge" of "concern" would have gained momentum — CDC data continues to contradict the tone of what Reuters had reported two days earlier.

First, delta (not omicron) is still massively dominant in the United States:

Nowcast projections for the week ending December 11, 2021, predict the national proportion of Omicron to be 2.9% and Delta to be 96.7%.

The proportion of Omicron is predicted to be higher than the national proportion in HHS regions 2 and 7.

The proportions of Delta are predicted to be greater than 86% in all HHS regions.

Second, COVID deaths are falling, even though delta is more potentially lethal (in vulnerable people) than omicron is.

Look at the pertinent graphs, here:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Trends in Number of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the US Reported to CDC, by State/Territory|United States|Daily Deaths, covid.cdc.gov (visited 31 December 2021)

Third, US COVID hospitalizations (for all age groups) are also falling.

See those graphs, here:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-NET Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations, Rates of COVID-19 Associated Hospitalization — Preliminary weekly rates as of Dec 25, 2021, covid.cdc.gov (visited 31 December 2021)

The moral? — Reuters is full of shit . . .

Just as almost all of American media are (and have been) with regard to accurately reporting COVID'S real, as opposed to grossly magnified, threat to most people.

Of this interminable 'epidemic' of fear-injecting for corporate profit, see:

Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea, TK Mashup: "Omicron DEATH!", taibbi.substack.com (31 December 2021)

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Propaganda puppet Reuters — apparently made up its own COVID omicron data — alleging "concerns" about surging COVID hospitalizations among US children