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Dr. Anthony Fauci provided some insight regarding the accuracy of
metrics used for counting positive COVID-19 cases in children. On
Wednesday night, Fauci told MSNBC�s Ayman Mohyeldin that since all
children are tested for COVID-19 when they enter a hospital, regardless
of the reason they are there, that many children are hospitalized �with
COVID� rather than �because of COVID.� Because of that, some COVID-19
cases can be �over counted,� Fauci said.

Keen observers would note that many people skeptical of the official
COVID-19 count have argued that exact scenario was happening for quite
some time.

As The Washington Examiner reported, Fauci told Moheyldin that
childhood COVID-19 cases were rising for a number of reasons, but that
doesn�t necessarily mean cause for alarm.

�First of all, quantitatively, you�re having so many more people,
including children, who are getting infected. And even though
hospitalization among children is much, much lower on a percentage
basis than hospitalizations for adults, particularly elderly
individuals,� Fauci told the guest host filling in for MSNBC�s Rachel
Maddow, �when you have such a large volume of infections among
children, even with a low level of rate of infection, you�re going to
still see a lot more children who get hospitalized.�

�But the other important thing is that if you look at the children who
are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed
to because of COVID,� Fauci added. �And what we mean by that � if a
child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID.
And they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual. When in fact,
they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that.
So it�s over-counting the number of children who are, quote,
�hospitalized with COVID,� as opposed to because of COVID.�

Andy Swan flagged that clip Thursday evening, and sarcastically
tweeted, �Fauci regurgitates CONSPIRACY THEORY that �hospitalizations�
data is bullshit because most people are in WITH COVID, not FROM
COVID.�

Fauci regurgitates CONSPIRACY THEORY that �hospitalizations�
data is bullshit because most people are in WITH COVID, not
FROM COVID. pic.twitter.com/hZBPa40klC

� Andy Swan (@AndySwan) December 30, 2021

�It is absolutely amazing to watch the EXPERTS! class say word-for-word
what the banned �conspiracy theorists� were trying to communicate for
the past 20 months,� Swan added.

�If you ever wondered if they were lying the whole time, this video
puts any good faith claim to rest,� Mike Cernovich opined.

If you ever wondered if they were lying the whole time, this
video puts any good faith claim to rest.

�With Covid,� not �because of� Covid.

� Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 31, 2021

Even in May of this year, researchers at Stanford stated that people
were vastly overestimating childhood COVID-19 cases for the exact same
reasons that Fauci laid out Wednesday. Fauci � of course � made no
mention that over-counting COVID-19 cases was not a novel idea and that
others had theorized this was happening before.

A reasonable assumption could be made that if hospitals are doing this
for children � and failing to differentiate between patients �with
COVID� vs. patients in the hospital �because of COVID� � then it is
possible they are doing this for adults as well.

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