NYT issued correction to article which falsely stated 4,000 children aged 5-11 had died of COVID-related illness

The New York Times issued a correction Thursday to an article which falsely stated 4,000 children aged 5-11 had died of a COVID-related illness.

“An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to the numbers of children aged 5 to 11 with multisystem inflammatory syndrome. About 4,000 have been diagnosed, not died, with the syndrome,” the NYT correction read. The correction was issued after the false statement was mocked on social media.

The error occurred in a section of the outlet’s Daily Covid Briefing about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending vaccine boosters for children aged 5 to 11. The article used MIS, child hospitalizations during the Omicron surge and child COVID-19 deaths to emphasize the importance of boosters for this age group.

“Many parents have hesitated to immunize their children, in part because they are at much lower risk of severe disease than adults,” an earlier version of the article read. “But record numbers of children were hospitalized during the Omicron surge this winter. Nearly 4,000 children aged 5 to 11 have died from a Covid-related condition called multisystem inflammatory syndrome during the pandemic. And some studies find that even children who have a mild illness may experience symptoms for months.”

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