“Covid” hospitalizations are up only because the CARES Act authorizes Medicare to pay a 20% bonus to hospitals for “covid19 treatment” so golly, every case that can be classified as “covid” will be classified that way. Same for deaths. It’s all corrupted data at this point because the medical community is being incentivised to corrupt the data. “What gets rewarded, gets done.” If you want more of something, just offer to pay for it.
I’d like to see that behavior punished, it’s fraud.
I’d also like, but will never see, honest and insightful reporting that does more than the “OMG we’re now at X number of cases!” Details are in the numbers, presence of anti-bodies, segmentation on those who’ve become ill, meaningful perspective - like fatalities vs. cases, etc.
Exactly!! The local news here in Houston yesterday reported that they can claim up to 40-50-% or even higher. It is all about $$$ and blaming Trump.