Nearly half of kids recorded as needing inpatient treatment for virus were likely there for something else (and just happened to test positive), study suggests

Hospitals are OVERCOUNTING children admitted for Covid

By Daily Mail —— Bio and Archives September 21, 2021

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Hospitalizations of children for COVID-19 are likely be overcounted by as much as 45 percent, a new study suggests. Out of 117 children who tested positive were treated as inpatients in Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, 53 were likely not sick enough from the virus itself to need inpatient treatment. -- More...

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