{"id":27578,"date":"2022-01-09T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=27578"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:50:32","slug":"cdcs-walensky-corrects-justice-sonia-sotomayors-covid-19-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/09\/cdcs-walensky-corrects-justice-sonia-sotomayors-covid-19-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC&#8217;s Walensky corrects Justice Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s COVID-19 claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>CDC chief Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Sunday was forced to correct US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s dramatically inflated claim that there are 100,000 pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d Walensky was pressed to confirm that there are\u00a0actually fewer than 3,500 kids with the virus in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d Walensky replied, cutting down the justice\u2019s wrong assertion Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, you know, here\u2019s what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now,\u201d continued the head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated, and for those children who are not eligible for vaccination, we do know they are most likely to get sick with COVID if their family members aren\u2019t vaccinated,\u201d she said, pushing the Biden administration\u2019s mantra that the unvaxxed are fueling the continued pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/rochelle-walensky-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/rochelle-walensky-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Dr. Rochelle Walensky was forced to correct Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor's claim that 100,000 kids were in the hospitals with COVID-19 when the number was actually fewer than 3,500.\" class=\"wp-image-20770612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/rochelle-walensky-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/rochelle-walensky-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/rochelle-walensky-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><figcaption> Dr. Rochelle Walensky was forced to correct Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor\u2019s claim that 100,000 kids were in the hospitals with COVID-19 when the number was actually fewer than 3,500.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Greg Nash-Pool\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-tested-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-tested-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Justice Sonia Sotomayor dramatically claimed that there are 100,000 pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations.\" class=\"wp-image-20770579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-tested-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-tested-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-tested-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Justice Sonia Sotomayor dramatically and wrongly claimed that there are 100,000 pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Marta Lavandier, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sotomayor made her overinflated hospital claim during oral arguments in a case involving the White House\u2019s vaccine mandate for private businesses with at least 100 employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have over 100,000 children, which we\u2019ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators,\u201d the justice said.<\/p>\n<p>In his interview with Walensky on Sunday, Fox News anchor Brett Baier grilled the CDC chief about whether she felt any responsibility to set the record straight on the exaggerated numbers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-hospital-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-hospital-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Justice Sonya Sotomayor made her overinflated hospital claim during oral arguments in a case involving the White House's vaccine mandate for private businesses with at least 100 employees.\" class=\"wp-image-20770582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-hospital-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-hospital-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/covid-hospital-child-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Justice Sonya Sotomayor made her overinflated hospital claim during oral arguments in a case involving the White House\u2019s vaccine mandate for private businesses with at least 100 employees.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock \/ LOOKSLIKEPHOTO.CO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd do you feel responsibility as the CDC director to correct a very big mischaracterization by one of the Supreme Court justices?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, here\u2019s what I\u2019ll tell you. I\u2019ll tell you that, right now, 17 \u2014 if you\u2019re unvaccinated, you\u2019re 17 times more likely to be in the hospital and 20 times more likely to die than if you\u2019re boosted,\u201d Walensky said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, what my responsibility is, is to provide guidance and recommendations to protect the American people. Those recommendations strongly recommend vaccination for our children above the age of 5 and boosting for everyone above the age of 18 if they\u2019re eligible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/09\/cdcs-walensky-corrects-justice-sonia-sotomayors-covid-19-claim\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CDC chief Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Sunday was forced to correct US Supreme Court&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cj-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27580,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27578\/revisions\/27580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}