CITIZENS NEWS

New York Times caught peddling fake news of children hospitalized by COVID-19

By newseditors // 2021-10-11

In an article published by New York Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli on Wednesday, Times readers were told that "nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began." (Article republished from GreatGameIndia.com) A correction issued on Thursday notes that the correct number is 63,000 between August 2020 and October 2021, which means Mandavilli exaggerated the number of child hospitalizations by 837,000 cases. The exaggeration was included in a report on the debate surrounding whether and how to vaccinate children. Mandavilli has been a controversial figure at the Times for her ideologically colored pandemic coverage. In May, she tweeted that: "Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not today." She later deleted the tweet but not before adding "a theory can have racist roots and still gather reasonable supporters along the way. Doesn’t make the roots any less racist or the theory any more convincing, though." The theory has not yet been disproved. To the contrary, it has picked up a number of prominent supporters in the scientific community, including former Times reporters Nicholas Wade and Donald McNeil. McNeil was the lead coronavirus reporter at the publication prior to his being fired and smeared by the Times for uttering a racial epithet in the context of discussing its moral valence and grace on an educational trip several years ago. The correction is notable as the nature of the threat that coronavirus poses to children figures heavily in the continued and often partisan debates over vaccine and mask mandates in schools. Earlier, even the BBC was caught spreading propaganda and false claims on vaccines for children. Meanwhile, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. has slapped a $10 million lawsuit against the New York Times for a false for and a damaging story on Coronavirus that was circulated throughout the Internet. The NYT story was peddling the fake news that students returning from spring break became infected with the coronavirus because the school stayed open. According to a new nationwide study almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases. The study shows how a pandemic was created on the myth of COVID Hospitalizations. Also according to leaked NHS data more than half of those hospitalized with Covid-19 in the UK only tested positive after admission to the hospital. Read more at: GreatGameIndia.com

New York Times fake news COVID