- Fauci told MSNBC a child ‘automatically’ gets tested for COVID at a hospital
- It means they get counted as a ‘COVID-hospitalized’ individual no matter what
- They could test positive after going in with a ‘broken leg or appendicitis’
- Cruz responded by saying in a tweet: ‘Now Fauci says this? Is this because pandemic politics have changed for the Biden admin?’
- Fauci’s controversial comments came as the number of children in hospital with COVID soared to an average of 334 per day
- The US smashed another world record with 647,067 new infections on Thursday
By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 08:09 EST, 31 December 2021
Ted Cruz has criticized the Biden administration after the president’s Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted there was a difference between the number of children hospitalized ‘with COVID’ as opposed to ‘because of COVID.’
Fauci told MSNBC on Wednesday night: ‘If a child goes into the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID and they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual, when, in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that.
‘So it’s over counting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID’.