In which that lying bastard admits what a lot of people were pointing out, oh, more than a year ago?

“But the other important thing is that if you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID,” Fauci added. “And what we mean by that — if a child goes in 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.”

Andy Swan flagged that clip Thursday evening, and sarcastically tweeted, “Fauci regurgitates CONSPIRACY THEORY that ‘hospitalizations’ data is bullshit because most people are in WITH COVID, not FROM COVID.”
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Even in May of this year, researchers at Stanford stated that people were vastly overestimating childhood COVID-19 cases for the exact same reasons that Fauci laid out Wednesday. Fauci — of course — made no mention that over-counting COVID-19 cases was not a novel idea and that others had theorized this was happening before.

A reasonable assumption could be made that if hospitals are doing this for children — and
failing to differentiate between patients “with COVID” vs. patients in the hospital “because of COVID” — then it is possible they are doing this for adults as well.
Yeah.  Also pointed out a long time ago.  And inferred from Birx saying they were being 'very liberal' with diagnosis of Wuhan.  And because the PCR test was/is way oversensitive.  And the flu mysteriously disappearing, and now the CDC saying 'the test can't tell the difference, so you need to use different tests that can'.

It'll be a long time before most people will trust these bastards again.  With good reason.