CNN’s Jake Tapper Mocked By Conservatives For Now Arguing COVID Hospitalization Stats Are ‘Misleading’

CNN anchor Jake Tapper received a hefty dose of criticism for a recent segment in which he argued that COVID hospitalization stats may have been “misleading.”

Tapper’s ‘come to Jesus’ moment comes as CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky admitted that up to 40% of reported COVID hospitalizations are not actually due to COVID, but rather incidental diagnoses for patients coming in with some other ailment.

“In some hospitals that we’ve talked to, up to 40 percent of the patients who are coming in with COVID-19 are coming in not because they’re sick with COVID, but because they’re coming in with something else and have had … COVID or the omicron variant detected,” she said in an interview with Fox News Bret Baier.

Prior to Walensky’s admission, any suggestion that COVID numbers had been inflated was immediately dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

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Jake Tapper Realizes COVID Numbers Are ‘Misleading’

For many, Walensky’s statement was simply confirmation of something suspected for quite some time. For Jake Tapper, however, it was a revelation.

Tapper raised concerns over that revelation in an interview with CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

“If 40% in some hospitals – 40% of the people who have COVID don’t necessarily have problematic COVID – they’re there because they got in a car accident, they’re there because, you know, they bump their head, and they’re being included as ‘in the hospital with COVID,’ that number seems kind of misleading,” he worried.

CNN’s Jake Tapper rips into “misleading” COVID hospitalization numbers.
“We’re 2 years into this … if somebody’s in the hospital with a broken leg and they also have asymptomatic COVID, that should not be counted as hospitalized with covid, clearly.” pic.twitter.com/rZhcANyYaW

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 10, 2022

“We’re two years into this, and we need the clearest picture possible. If somebody’s in the hospital with a broken leg and they also have asymptomatic COVID, that should not be counted as hospitalized with COVID, clearly,” Tapper added.

Go ahead and file that commentary under ‘D’ for ‘Duh.’

In just the past 24 hours:

Jake Tapper admitted Rona hospitalizations are inflated.

CDC admitted 75% of Rona-deaths are of people with 4 or more comorbidities.

Big Pharma exec admitted vaccines have been ineffective at stopping the spread.

Something’s going on guys. https://t.co/UKMWrCibxj

— Patrick Courrielche (@courrielche) January 11, 2022

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Truth Is Coming Out

Critics seized on something they felt Jake Tapper probably should have known or at least investigated a long time ago.

“It’s so striking how many arguments that were long taboo are now all being aired,” journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted.

“These media people were the ones who were supposed to be looking at data skeptically,” Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich responded. “It has been obvious, for at least a year and a half, that this was happening. Alternative media noticed and was attacked for delivering the truth.”

Two years into covid @cnn has suddenly discovered the difference between being hospitalized with covid and being hospitalized because of covid. Anyone who has bothered to look at the data has, of course, known this for two years. pic.twitter.com/g28NnZPQPu

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 11, 2022

Claremont Institute’s Nick Short simply said to Tapper, “Two years too late Jake.”

Walensky also recently admitted that 75% of COVID deaths had been in vaccinated patients who had “at least four comorbidities.”

The CDC director just said over 75% of “covid deaths” occurred in people with at least four comorbidities. Since Biden can’t shut down covid, suddenly all this data is getting shared publicly. pic.twitter.com/NKvproy3lx

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 10, 2022

It’s funny how the CDC and political pundits are suddenly correcting the record on reporting COVID statistics now that Omicron cases have skyrocketed and it has become abundantly clear that President Biden cannot “shut down the virus” as he promised.