GREAT MOMENTS IN CORRECTIONS:  New York Times issues massive correction after overstating COVID hospitalizations among children.

“An earlier version of this article incorrectly described actions taken by regulators in Sweden and Denmark. They have halted use of the Moderna vaccine in children; they have not begun offering single doses. The article also misstated the number of Covid hospitalizations in U.S. children. It is more than 63,000 from August 2020 to October 2021, not 900,000 since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, the article misstated the timing of an F.D.A. meeting on authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children. It is later this month, not next week,” the lengthy correction stated in full.

Journalist Jeryl Bier asked, “How did an error that large happen, @NYTimes?”

Columnist Phil Kerpen sarcastically said the Times reporter was “meeting her usual standards” with the inaccurate report.

If only the New York Times had a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter laser-focused on this topic. The correction was appended to an article written by his successor, who earlier this year wrote this: