By Will Hall, Baptist Message executive editor NEW YORK (LBM)- -During a broadcast interview, Dec. 29, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, addressed the troubling number of children who have been hospitalized during the recent spike associated with the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Fauci, who has served under seven presidents as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, cautioned MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin that there were two factors contributing to the rising numbers among children. “Quantitatively, you’re having so many more people, including children, who are getting infected,” Fauci said. Additionally, hospitals are “overcounting the number of children who are hospitalized ‘with COVID’ as opposed to ‘because of COVID.'” On his first point, Fauci explained that “hospitalization among children is much, much lower on a percentage basis than hospitalizations for adults, particularly elderly individuals.” But he offered that with such a large volume of infections among children, “even with a low level of rate of infection, you’re going to still see a lot more children who get hospitalized.” Following up on his second point, Fauci offered that “if a child goes … [Read more...]