“The number of hospitalized patients includes patients with a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 even if the person is admitted to the hospital for a different reason,” Rosales said.”
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This makes sense in that, if when you go to the hospital because you broke your leg and they check out that nasty cough you have and find out it’s covid, the covid is the more important, overriding diagnosis.
A broken leg isn’t highly contagious (unless a lot of people trip over your cast and break their own appendages) and doesn’t require special hospital environs/setup - a bed in a general ward will do fine.
If it is falsely is presented as being admitted for covid only, that is a problem. It counts as a covid infection, but may not become a covid-based hospitalization unless the illness progresses. They need to be clearer with the terminology.
It didn’t make sense to the physicians I watched talking about it. Other diagnoses do not over rule a broken leg, until Covid-19 came along. It’s not more urgent medically, particularly if the person is asymptomatic. The current practice is designed to over report Covid-19 at all costs.
So what if you go into a hospital for.a broken leg and they find you have Covid 19 but you are asymptomatic and don’t need hospitalization for anything BUT the broken leg.
That is what they are doing. They are intentionally inflating the numbers for political reasons.