Horowitz: Are children in hospital for RSV, not COVID, DUE to lockdowns?

When King Ahab of the Bible murdered his neighbor to take possession of his vineyard, Elijah rebuked him, “Did you kill and take possession? (1 Kings 21:19). Well, it seems those who promoted blockades over early outpatient treatment as a solution for COVID were once against benefiting from a phenomenon they likely caused, now using it to mistakenly instill more. panic over children at risk of COVID.

Isn’t that too practical? Just when schools are expected to start over, supporters of lockdowns and masks appear to have finally gained weight on a narrative of children filling hospitals with COVID – a phenomenon not seen in any other country. As Alasdair Munro, a pediatric infectious disease doctor in the UK, observed with exasperation, the US is the only country that appears to be panicking over Delta pediatric infections.

The cynical answer is that politics is a more blood sport in the United States than anywhere else on earth, so there is a constant need to manipulate anecdotes and data to carry out a political agenda, in this case shutting down schools. or hide children just at the start of the new academic year. However, all lies are built on a kernel of truth. In this case, panic purveyors receive timely help from a legitimate concern about Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a common childhood virus that we have always lived with and which has likely worsened. because the very policies they intend to promote by exploiting this new narrative.

As you can see in this graph, courtesy of Bio Fire, we are experiencing a massive off-season increase in RSV cases, which actually outpaces COVID in terms of positivity rates from lab-confirmed tests. Anyone can get RSV, but it’s usually only dangerous for some infants and young children. According to the CDC, 58,000 children are hospitalized each year because of the virus. We already know that the virus is particularly rampant in the South and that hospitals are already reporting an abnormal increase in pediatric cases of RSV.

Now, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that a large number of children who come to the hospital for RSV in the South will end up catching COVID in the hospital. My claim has always been that children do not get seriously ill from COVID and are not the primary transmitters, but they absolutely can and do get the virus, especially during times of spread and especially in the hospital.

We already know from a Miami doctor that 50% of vaccinated patients in hospital who are counted as COVID patients are not really there for COVID. This must be doubly true for the unvaccinated, especially children. Most hospitals have a policy of automatically testing for COVID for those who have not been vaccinated, even if they present for a kidney stone or surgery. Not all children under the age of 12 are vaccinated and would therefore be tested, but they are unlikely to be hospitalized due to COVID. With the increase in the number of RSVs sending them to hospital, it is almost impossible that a significant number of documented “pediatric COVID hospitalizations” are not completely bogus.

In general, a study published in the Journal of American Academy of Pediatrics found that “nearly half of infected children have co-infection with other common respiratory pathogens.” We can then assume that in an area of ​​prolific spread of COVID but also of high rates of RSV, these numbers of co-infections will be even higher. But in the case of children, the reason they’re seriously ill is almost certainly not COVID, but RSV, for the same reason RSV rises so much out of season.

NPR’s Oklahoma affiliate recently reported on the rise in pediatric RSV hospitalizations in the state and cited Dr. Steven Nye, director of the Pediatrics Department at Integris Health in Oklahoma City, as to the theory behind this artificial increase.

“Children and babies who, if they were born during COVID, have not been exposed to any viral illnesses throughout their lives,” he said. “And now all of a sudden they’re thrown in, you know, it’s like when a kid starts daycare, he’s sick every two weeks.”

Dr. Derek Jones of the Family Medicine Center in Huntington, West Virginia, observed a similar trend with the rise in hospitalizations for RSV in his area. “Where children had not been exposed to their normal viral load to which they are usually exposed throughout the year, once they got back together and people started to be exposed to these again. virus, we have seen a huge increase, ”he said. “Kids are sicker than usual because their immune systems haven’t had the small exposures that change their antibodies throughout the year, so these kids are pretty sick when they get RSV.”

“These children were so well protected that they were not exposed,” said Dr. Erin Hauck, vice-chief of the pediatric division of Our Lady of the Lake, of the rise in RSV cases in Louisiana hospitals.

Dr David Kimberlin, co-director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told NBC that the RSV wave in Alabama has “passed our worst winters in terms of RSV hospitalizations “.

Dr Roberto Ayers, pulmonologist from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, observed that “50% of all babies tested who show symptoms are positive for RSV.” “We usually start the season at 10% and we keep it open at 10%; we’re at 50% like it’s mid-January or February,” Ayers said. “It’s really bad.”

The CDC’s latest surveillance data on COVID hospitalizations appears to align with the theory that they count RSV admissions as COVID.

As you can see, while pediatric hospitalizations have increased, they are still below winter levels, and no one suggested at the time that children were flooding the hospital with diseases. However, note that the 0-4 cohort grew relatively faster than the 5-17 cohort. This is what we would expect to see if RSV, and not COVID, is the primary driver of hospitalizations.

So the “experts” rejected God’s gift of partial immunity to COVID, itself caused by early childhood exposure to viruses, and turned children into bubble children who are now vulnerable to viruses with which we have lived for a long time. Then they have the temerity to attribute those hospitalizations to COVID – not their own heinous response – and use it as a pretext to further isolate the children. Rinse and repeat the cycle of immunocompromised hell.

There is a reason why “Bubble Boy” is a fictional movie, not a way of life.