Canadian Media Spreading Misinformation Again
Why do governments and social media companies pretend to care about misleading and false information but then allow stories like these to be shared widely with no censorship or restrictions?
A new study was recently released that tried to determine how many children suffered persistent symptoms after being hospitalized with COVID. The results were not surprising or worrisome in my opinion.
The researchers determined that only 6% of children who were hospitalized with COVID experienced persistent symptoms.
Obviously this fact was not scary enough for the mainstream media. They needed a headline and story that would keep scaring Canadians. With the latest approval of toddler vaccines, the mainstream media needs to adequately scare parents as they have been doing for over two years now
So instead of accurately sharing this study, nearly every mainstream outlet in the country coordinated to offer identical headlines.
Why this is misinformation?
The headline and story try to make it sound like 6% of kids who get COVID will have persistent symptoms.
But the study concluded that 6% of kids that had COVID and WERE ADMITTED TO THE ER presented persistent symptoms.
There’s a massive difference between 6% of kids who get COVID and 6% of those who have to be admitted to the hospital because their case of COVID was so severe. Less than 1% of children with COVID require hospitalization so the actual statistic would be closer to 0.06% of children with COVID experience persistent symptoms (6% of the 1% that may require to go to the hospital).
More than 99% of cases of children’s COVID don’t involve hospitalization so 99% of cases could not have been part of this study.
My assumption is that this study did not find anything abnormally dangerous about COVID. One could probably estimate that 6% of ALL children who are admitted for ANY respiratory virus have persistent symptoms a month later.
To put it another way. Imagine if we surveyed kids who fell off a bike and required an ER visit to see if any of them broke a bone and found that 50% of them said they had. Imagine that with this information we said: 50% of kids who fall off their bikes, break bones.
Of course that would be completely false and misleading as only the severe falls are included in the survey and not ALL falls.
Why do governments and social media companies pretend to care about misleading and false information but then allow stories like these to be shared widely with no censorship or restrictions?