Claim: One in 100 children who catch Covid-19 get sick enough with the disease to be admitted to hospital.
Fact-check: NHS video overstates the risk of Covid-19 to children - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not true. it reflects the approximate proportion of children who tested positive for covid-19, who were admitted to hospital. this rate has roughly halved recently. a child's real risk of admission due to covid is also much lower than this rate suggests, because many infections are not detected as cases, and some admissions are not due to covid.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2022-02-09T00:00:00