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Another Misleading Headline ?

The headline of the article read:

“COVID-19 Cases Rise Sharply Among Children as School Year Starts”

OMG! The implication here is that we are in the midst of a tragically bad situation.

The article continues:

Since the pandemic began, children have represented 14.8 percent of total cases, but for the week ending Aug. 26, that percentage jumped to 22.4 percent, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.(AAP)

While child COVID-19 cases declined in early summer, they have ‘increased exponentially’ recently, with more than a fivefold increase in the past month, according to the academy.

At this point I thought, “Is this really unusual and a cause for alarm?” With the kids going back to school wouldn’t it be expected to have the percent  increasing, especially considering that for much of the last school year, many, if not most of their classes were online … meaning that the children were not mixing with each other.

The AAP continued, “the trend is concerning as the delta variant may pose a greater danger to children, most of whom are not yet eligible for the COVID-19 vaccines. Note the key word in this statement is “may.” In other words the AAP doesn’t know if the delta variant poses a greater risk to children.

Hidden at the end of this article:

“At this time, it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is uncommon among children,” the AAP report concluded. “However, there is an urgent need to collect more data, etc.

It seems to me that the AAP not only does not know if there is any greater risk to children, but even when they come out and and say “that severe illness is uncommon in children,” they cannot leave it at that but rather feel obliged to add … “there is an urgent need to collect more data.”

Perhaps a more honest headline should read:

“Despite increased incidence of Covid in children, due to the delta variant, severe illness remains uncommon.”

9/20/21

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