We are not admitting people who do not need to be admitted. I have much better things to do with my time and the hospital would not get paid if the patient does not meet admission criteria. Our beds are full there is no lack of patients that actually need hospitalization.
While you would not admit people who do not need admission, other physicians certainly have done so in the past. But the problem many of us have with these numbers arises from their confounding. For example, a patient is admitted with a non-viral diagnosis, and subsequently tests positive despite having no accompanying symptoms — yet is shown as a C-19 admission. That admission might have more discrete reporting in your hospital - but not in others. At the state level, the data seems co-mingled. The media is reporting these as though the reason for admission and subsequent bed occupation is due to Covid (and covid alone.)