{"id":1198311,"date":"2022-01-07T20:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198311"},"modified":"2022-01-07T20:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:50:01","slug":"politifact-slams-liberal-justice-sotomayor-for-claiming-100k-kids-in-serious-condition-with-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-slams-liberal-justice-sotomayor-for-claiming-100k-kids-in-serious-condition-with-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact Slams Liberal Justice Sotomayor For Claiming 100K Kids In \u2018Serious Condition\u2019 With COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitifact-slams-liberal-justice-sotomayor-for-claiming-100k-kids-in-serious-condition-with-covid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198311&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>PolitiFact slammed liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for claiming during oral arguments over the Biden administration\u2019s vaccine mandate on Friday that more than 100,000 children were in \u201cserious condition\u201d due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have over 100,000 children, which we\u2019ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators\u201d due to coronavirus, Sotomayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/justice-sotomayor-totally-botches-covid-19-facts-about-omicron-children-in-hospital-in-line-of-questioning\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact rated the statement as \u201cFalse,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/jan\/07\/sonia-sotomayor\/fact-checking-sotomayor-kids-severe-covid-19\/\">writing<\/a> in-part:<\/p>\n<p><em>While the number of coronavirus-positive pediatric hospitalizations has risen with the spread of the omicron variant, Sotomayor\u2019s number was way off.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the time she made this comment, federal data showed that fewer than 5,000 coronavirus-positive children were in the hospital. In fact, fewer than 83,000 children have been hospitalized for COVID-19 \u2014 cumulatively \u2014 since August 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There are over 100,000 cases among children, but scientists say that few of those are severe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor said during oral arguments today that \u201cwe have over 100,000 children, which we\u2019ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators\u201d due to the coronavirus. That&#8217;s False. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9itoVd1s1L\">https:\/\/t.co\/9itoVd1s1L<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zX8Nf6Bx8r\">pic.twitter.com\/zX8Nf6Bx8r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitiFact\/status\/1479608835740508165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PolitiFact slammed liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for claiming during oral arguments over the Biden administration\u2019s vaccine mandate on Friday that more than 100,000 children were in \u201cserious condition\u201d due to the coronavirus. \u201cWe have over 100,000 children, which we\u2019ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators\u201d due to coronavirus, Sotomayor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}