New York Times issues massive correction after overstating COVID hospitalizations among children
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The New York Times issued a massive correction Thursday after the liberal newspaper severely misreported the number of COVID hospitalities among children in the United States by more than 800,000.
A report headlined "A New Vaccine Strategy for Children: Just One Dose, for Now," by science and health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli, was peppered with errors before major changes were made to the story. The Times initially reported "nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalized" with COVID since the pandemic began, when the factual data in the now-corrected version is that "more than 63,000 children were hospitalized with Covid-19 from August 2020 to October 2021."
The New York Times issued a massive correction Thursday after the liberal newspaper severely misreported the number of COVID hospitalities among children in United States. (Photo by Don EMMERT / AFP) (Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images) (DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)
The paper also botched actions taken by regulators in Sweden and Denmark and even bungled the timing of a critical FDA meeting.
"An earlier version of this article incorrectly described actions taken by regulators in Sweden and Denmark. They have halted use of the Moderna vaccine in children; they have not begun offering single doses. The article also misstated the number of Covid hospitalizations in U.S. children. It is more than 63,000 from August 2020 to October 2021, not 900,000 since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, the article misstated the timing of an F.D.A. meeting on authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children. It is later this month, not next week," the lengthy correction stated in full.
Journalist Jeryl Bier asked, "How did an error that large happen, @NYTimes?"
Columnist Phil Kerpen sarcastically said the Times reporter was "meeting her usual standards" with the inaccurate report.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald mocked the paper, too.
"NYT had an outstanding, highly experienced COVID reporter, but was fired because he made very rich teenagers unhappy when forced to entertain them on a paid trip," he wrote, referring to Donald McNeil Jr., who was forced to step down earlier this year.
"Now we have an incompetent in his place constantly doing this, or saying it's racist to investigate COVID origins," Greenwald added, referring to when Mandavilli said the coronavirus "lab-leak" theory had "racist roots."
Many observers also mocked the paper for printing that Mandavilli "is the 2019 winner of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting" directly below the correction.
Rutgers University professor Richard H. Ebright feels the prize is "awarded to the dimmest candles on the science stenographer cake."
"Basically it has devolved to being an award for diligence in group think and virtue signaling," he added.
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There is a big difference between 100,000 and 900,000.
Gee, why would they do that?
I think most here can agree that the Times is devoid of truth.
WTH does that mean? Start of with how many are here to begin with.
27 right now signed in with 36 visitors.
So that makes 63 in total and 'most' would be 32 agreeing "that the Times is devoid of truth." It would take an act of partisan faith to believe this is the breakdown and as you know, I don't buy into those products.
I'd say it's more like 54 agreeing and 9 dedicated to anything with a (D) folowing it's name.
Just one man's opinion
When the cows come home they might agree you.
Count me in and I recall the last data manipulator was sent shuffling off to Buffalo.
I don't read the NY Slimes so I can't attest to their truth or lack therefore of.
What's surprising is a correction was published. Now that Facebook is under scrutiny for spreading misinformation and under threat of regulation, news organizations are trying to stay out of the line of fire and carve out exemptions for themselves. This may be too little, too late.
The problem is less about the reporting and more about editorial oversight. Facebook moderates content but, apparently, the New York Times does not. That's what the current impetus to regulate Facebook will bring into focus. Don't be surprised that Facebook will use sloppy reporting and lax oversight by news organizations to argue against being regulated. And that will make it harder for traditional news organizations to avoid being regulated, too.
Really? I have yet to come across a newspaper that did not publish corrections.
Newspapers also publish retractions when the reported facts are so grossly inaccurate that the reporting is nothing other than misinformation that can't be corrected. That's no different than Facebook blocking content.
You have far more operable synapses than that.
My mother worked for a newspaper and occasionally they had to publish corrections. They did not bury them in the back of the paper as so many do. When they were wrong, they owned it and made sure people would see them.
Lately Facebook has been running ads stating the want the internet regulations updated. I find that a bit strange given their present situation.
Look at what Facebook is supporting. Facebook advocates regulating advertising content, data portability, privacy, and censoring illegal activity. Facebook's advocacy isn't addressing the distribution of misinformation which is what is receiving regulatory attention at the moment.
Facebook is attempting to avoid being considered a publisher of content. But using regulation to force Facebook to bear responsibility for content published on the site won't be limited to Facebook; that will also affect publishers like the New York Times.
As it will the NYP, the WSJ, FOX and a plethora of other sources if that is the case.
Ask a simple question of the internet and one is overwhelmed with CDC, AAP and CHA data which expresses itself in percentages
rather than answer a simple question or two.
How many children have been hospitalized for Covid since 2019?
How many children died from Covid since 2019?
I still don't know.
I know I am sick of reading the word "reported" by different states that skew the results.
Shocked to see how many kids tested positive so far. ( almost 6 million )
Within this article is the 09/30/2021 report from AAP & CHA which is loaded with enough charts to make your head spin.
This chart may have confused the reporter ( note it is data from only 24 states )
The chart states it is a summary of child data
but the questionable column says (all ages )
The CDC reports 3,096,659 hospitalizations from all states "reporting".
curiously they report adult hospitalization trends and ignore the child hospitalization rates.
Reminds me of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
Water, Water everywhere and not a drop to drink....
I will provide a link to a CDC weekly report that I have been following for months. It gives details about covid related deaths by age, gender and location at time of death.
To date, there have been 499 covid related deaths out of 58,167 total deaths of children aged 0-17 years. 3739 covid related out of 110,769 for 18-29 age group and 10,872 covid related out of 160,184 for 30-39 age group.
For all age groups, there have been 700,952 covid related deaths out of 5,808,094 total deaths from 2019 to 10/6/2021. The vast majority in the over 65 age groups.
It doesn't appear that it is even the under 40 age group that is responsible for filling hospital beds because of covid or are at risk of dying if they don't get the vaccine.
People, with underlying health conditions, and anyone over the age of 65 should probably be vaccinated. I say probably because some people may have conditions that may make the vaccine either dangerous or ineffective for them. These people need to be guided by their doctor. If the US had a better health care system in place, we probably would not have had over 700,000 covid related deaths because of underlying conditions that should have been dealt with before covid ever came into existence.
It's okay Vic. Lets not be concerned that people with genuine urgent life-threatening conditions can't get into a hospital or an ICU bed because they're all taken up by people who said FUCK THE VACCINE and are there filling the beds.
And what has that got to do with the New York Times lying?
Are you suggesting that lying is a means to an end?
The title and the article speak of great numbers of hospitalizations. I didn't say or suggest anything about lying, but don't worry, I didn't put words in YOUR mouth.
So you wanted to talk about hospitalizations. Got it!
There was a story not too long ago about a man suffering a cardiac crisis. No beds available due to unvaccinate aholes taking up the spaces. He died.
There has been more than one story about that problem happening. What it comes down to is that innocent people who have done everything right are dying because of those who ignorantly and selfishly refuse to do what is necessary to curb the virus. IMO the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers are suicidal murderers.
I have published several. Heart disease and a gall stone problems,
by the time they found beds in a Veteran Hospital
they were beyond help.