She got the number right, but the severity wrong. There are about 100,000 children infected, but the number who experienced severe illness is wrong.
Of course, Justice Gorsuch said that the flu kills hundreds of thousands every year, which is utter nonsense. SCOTUS later "corrected" the transcript so that he said "hundreds, thousands", but that sounds like CYA.
Regardless, they're judges, not epidemiologists.
Interesting side fact: At least one of the attorneys arguing against the mandates appeared before SCOTUS remotely - because he had Covid. |