On May 19, 2021 a paper published in Hospital Pediatrics revealed that “universal screening” upon entry to a university pediatric hospital in California, led to an overestimation of the true number for children who are hospitalised because of COVID-19 – asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections (positive test) were not distinguished from children with symptoms, and hospitalized because of COVID-19 disease.
Any pediatric patient, a children under the age of 18, when admitted to hospital in the US is tested for SARS-CoV-2, and if PCR positive they are automatically “diagnosed” as having COVID-19, but the study found that nearly half of the children NEVER developed symptoms – but were still counted as a COVID-19 admission and a COVID-19 “case”.
The study looked at all admissions “between May 10, 2020 (when universal screening of all admissions began) and February 10, 2021 and found “reported hospitalization rates likely lead to overestimation of the true disease burden” in children.
Dr Scott Jensen shared that least 40% of the pediatric admissions to hospital were not “COVID-19 admissions”, they were for cancer, surgeries, psychiatric episodes, suicide potential, drug overdoses and other. If that child subsequently died in hospital, they would be considered a COVID-19 death – this was an known bias since early March 2020 due to “new” death certificate “guidelines” and high amplified PCR tests.