Anonymous ID: 54cb75 Jan. 8, 2022, 8:59 p.m. No.15335988   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5999 >>6017 >>6112

Hell just froze over… Politifact “fact-checked” a Democrat…

 

Fact-checking Sotomayor on kids with severe COVID-19

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• The number of coronavirus-positive pediatric hospitalizations has risen with the spread of the omicron variant. However, Sotomayor’s number was way off.

 

• At the time she made this comment, federal data showed that fewer than 5,000 coronavirus-positive children were in the hospital. In fact, fewer than 83,000 children have been hospitalized for COVID-19 — cumulatively — since August 2020.

 

• There are over 100,000 cases among children, but scientists say that few of those are severe.

 

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor incorrectly cited statistics about serious cases of COVID-19 among children during oral arguments over the Biden administration’s efforts to mandate vaccines for certain Americans.

 

"We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators" due to the coronavirus, Sotomayor said Jan. 7, 2022.

 

Her claim is not supported by data.

 

 

https://www.revolver.news/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/07/sonia-sotomayor/fact-checking-sotomayor-kids-severe-covid-19/