Posted on 01/04/2022 6:41:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As her state experiences increased pressure on the hospital and medical systems, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has issued an order intended to bring more clarity to COVID hospitalization data. The order will require hospitals to report whether a patient has been hospitalized for COVID-related reasons or has simply tested positive for COVID while at the hospital for other treatments.
“Someone is in a car accident, and they go to the emergency room and they test positive for COVID while they’re there,” said Hochul, “They’re not being treated for COVID.” A surprising sentiment, particularly to people who have been saying something similar since the beginning of the pandemic when data on hospitalizations became a driving indicator in state and national health policies.
Hochul herself has been spot-calling many hospitals in her state, saying that when asked how many cases were hospitalized for other reasons but tested positive for COVID, the numbers ranged from “20 to sometimes 50 percent.”
As time moved on, we learned that not only can vaccinated individuals carry and transmit COVID, but have breakthrough infections themselves. Therefore, it is important to begin implementing measures that give public health officials – and the public itself– a clearer picture of the pandemic and their local health systems’ resources.
Hochul’s most recent request for increased data transparency isn’t her first, as she has previously made efforts to undo the piecemeal data reporting done under Governor Cuomo.
Giving more context to the data on COVID hospitalizations will help the state parse the load on the healthcare system and give a more accurate representation of the effects of Delta and Omicron. It also addresses a long-time concern of many data scientists, those in the medical community, and others about the limitations of the data we currently collect. It is just unfortunate that it took nearly two years into the pandemic before New York, or any state, had expressly pushed for increased clarity and depth in their data reporting.
Hopefully, Governor Hochul and New York will only be the beginning of a trend where state-level data, as well as the data required and collected by the CDC, becomes far less superficial, and far more informative. It would be particularly helpful too, if Governor Hochul is listening, to require a clearer definition of what constitutes COVID deaths, just as data in admissions might now become clearer.
I wouldn’t trust the motivation.
Sounds like spiking the numbers is starting to backfire a bit in NY.
This was not learned. This was suspected and known by some for sure from the beginning and people and their posts were banned from Facebook and Twitter and the like for stating this. Only now has this somewhat become common knowledge ( I say somewhat as someone was just banned recently wthin the last several weeks from the View for stating as much) as the obvious truth cannot now be denied.
The “Count everything as covid” policy seems to be falling apart.
Well of course, now that the vaccinated are being hospitalized and dying at a higher rate. They have to tamp down those numbers.
It was fine to count WITH covid stats when it was all “unvaxxed”. No need for clarity back then 🙄🙄🙄
brief moment of mental clarity...
Using the previous rules to make Trump look bad is now making the dems look bad. Time to change the rules. Shazam! Look at how things got better.
Everyone going to a New York hospital is going to show as COVID positive on entry.
Exactly, must end by mid-terms.
Will she kill fewer NYers than Cuomo?
RE: Everyone going to a New York hospital is going to show as COVID positive on entry.
Exactly what is the incentive for doing that?
She’s simply COPYING DESANTIS IN FLORIDA:
https://www.yahoo.com/now/desantis-urges-hospitals-distinguish-those-193201506.html
COPYCAT!
Notice that she was never elected to be a governor, she is up for elections this year, and she might be facing a strong challenger too -- Pataki was making noises about coming out of retirement to crush another Cuomo.. which he cannot do anymore of course, but he still might come out.
Prudent to be very careful.
Notice that she was never elected to be a governor, she is up for elections this year, and she might be facing a strong challenger too -- Pataki was making noises about coming out of retirement to crush another Cuomo.. which he cannot do anymore of course, but he still might come out.
Prudent to be very careful.
Modified limited hangout that doesn’t address nosocomial spread by vaxxed superspreader healthcare employees.
We don’t know how many people in NYS have actually died from CoupFlu.
I’m betting that it’s far less than claimed.
NYS has been goosing the case count way up all along. It makes sense they’d need to do the same with the supposed death toll.
In any case, elections aren’t the only things in need of an audit.
As long as they continue to pay bonuses for COVID patients, they will continue to code patients as having COVID.
Moving those goal posts again.
Everyone going to a New York hospital is going to show as COVID positive on entry so that the hospital can avoid being identified as a superspreader location.
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