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Video: NY health commissioner admits using overblown claims about child COVID hospitalizations to scare parents into vaccinating their kids

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PHIL SHIVER

December 30, 2021

   

 

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New York's acting health commissioner, Dr. Mary Bassett, openly admitted this week to misleading people about an "upward trend" in child COVID-19 hospitalizations in order to "motivate" parents to get their children vaccinated.

What are the details?

Last Friday, the state health department issued a health alert notifying pediatricians of a concerning trend — hospitalizations among children with COVID-19 were up across the state and had quadrupled in the New York City area. No official numbers were given.

The news quickly garnered attention in the state, worrying parents about their children's safety amid the surge of the new Omicron variant. Only it turns out the number of children hospitalized with the virus at the time was relatively low and the numbers were deceptively framed in order to encourage vaccinations.

 

 

In a press conference Monday alongside Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, Bassett — who came down with the virus last week despite being fully vaccinated against it — effectively acknowledged that the state health department misleadingly framed the numbers to scare parents.

 

 

 

“The numbers that we gave on pediatric admissions weren’t intended to make it seem that children were having an epidemic of infection, these were small numbers," Bassett admitted regarding the alert. "That was based on 50 hospitalizations, and I've now given you some larger numbers, but they're still small numbers."

 

 

“It really was to motivate pediatricians and families to seek the protection of vaccination," she then stated.

 

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