Quite the Correction: NYT Retracts Massive Error on Number of Children Hospitalized by COVID

The New York Times made a massive correction to an article by Apoorva Mandavilli that 

initially claimed that nearly 900,000 children had been hospitalized with COVID-19 since 

the pandemic began in the spring of 2020, a far cry from the true number of about 63,000 

children hospitalized since August 2020, as The Times stated in their correction.

The Times' original article exaggerated the number of children hospitalized with the 

coronavirus by 837,000 cases.

Also included in the report were inaccurate descriptions of actions taken by regulators 

in Sweden and Denmark, as well as an error regarding the timing of a critical Food and

 Drug Administration meeting.

"An earlier version of this article incorrectly described actions taken by regulators in

 Sweden and Denmark. They have halted use of the Moderna vaccine in children; they 

have not begun offering single doses," the correction from Thursday read. "The article

 also misstated the number of Covid hospitalizations in U.S. children. It is more than 

63,000 from August 2020 to October 2021, not 900,000 since the beginning of the 

pandemic. In addition, the article misstated the timing of an F.D.A. meeting on 

authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children. It is later this month, 

not next week."

This correction from The Times prompted criticisms from other members of the 

media, including Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who slammed the paper for replacing 

a competent reporter covering the coronavirus with Mandavilli.

"NYT had an outstanding, highly experienced COVID reporter, but was fired because

 he made very rich teenagers unhappy when forced to entertain them on a paid trip. 

Now we have an incompetent in his place constantly doing this, or saying it's racist 

to investigate COVID origins," he tweeted, referring to Mandavilli previously 

saying in a tweet that the lab leak theory had "racist roots."

Less than 500 children have died from COVID-19, according to data from the 

Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Quite the Correction: NYT Retracts Massive Error on Number of Children Hospitalized by COVID (townhall.com)