Anthony Fauci said that hospitals are now overcounting COVID-19 cases in children because they are automatically tested when they are admitted, echoing a narrative that has been repeated by some skeptics for months.

Fauci , many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID,” the disease caused by the virus.

“If a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID. And they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual,” Fauci remarked. “When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis