CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Throws Sotomayor Under the Bus Over False Children COVID Hospitalization Figures

On Friday, we reported that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made Fox News’ Brit Hume wince when she falsely suggested that upwards of 100,000 children in the United States are hospitalized from COVID-19, “many of them on ventilators.”

CDC director Rachel Walensky threw Sotomayor under the bus yesterday when speaking with Bret Baier on Fox News’ “Fox News Sunday.”

Baier played a clip of Sotomayor’s statement and said that Fox News’ research showed that there are fewer than 3,500 “current pediatric hospitalizations from COVID-19. Is that true?”

Walensky responded, “Yeah, but, you know, here’s what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now, first 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’t vaccinated.”

“So the most important thing we can do for those children to keep them out of the hospital is to vaccinate them and to vaccinate their family members around them,” Walensky claimed.

Baier then cut her off and reiterated, “Understood, but the number is not 100,000 it’s roughly 3,500 in hospitals.”

“Yes, there are, and in fact what I will say is that while pediatric hospitalizations are rising, they are still about 15-fold less than hospitalizations of our older demographics,” Walensky explained.

SOTOMAYOR: “Over 100,000 children" are hospitalized due to COVID, with "many on ventilators"

BRET BAIER: "The number's not 100,000. It's roughly 3,500 in hospitals now?"

WALENSKY: "Yes."

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As we previously reported, Sotomayor said during Friday’s arguments, “We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators.”

The claim came during oral arguments on the Biden administration’s mandate on private businesses for employees to be either vaccinated or frequently tested.

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