Posted on 12/31/2021 3:41:56 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A significant proportion of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in recent weeks were admitted for other reasons, according to health officials and government data.
The exact scale of the phenomenon in the US is not recorded in federal statistics, but has been noted anecdotally.
And Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the White House, described the phenomenon, specifically in children, in a Wednesday night interview with MSNBC.
Since all hospital admissions are tested for COVID-19, Fauci said, many are "hospitalized with COVID, as opposed to because of COVID." The real reason for hospitalization might be "a broken leg, or appendicitis, or something like that," he continued.
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fish mask....
LOL
Finally somebody is taking this crisis seriously.
Fauci: As of Noon tomorrow we are starting my new fish mask program with all farm raised salmon and catfish....
Uh, that’s mandatory and enforced by federal law, by the way.
Reminds me of the annual deer herd culling when hunters don’t reduce it enough and vehicles in too many accidents with deer. Someone said as a gag: “We need to have employees of the Game Division place condoms on all the male deer before mating season.”
not really. This is how pandemic deniers continue to rationalize denying a pandemic. Thereby helping out Joe.
noted anecdotally
What pandemic?
;^)
Omicron did not mutate away from Delta. It mutated away from an earlier strain that does not have a fancy name.
Mutation counts are called divergence from the original strain. What was surprising with Omicron is the big jump in mutations in a single step. Overall, there are Delta strains as far removed from the original as Omicron.
Take a look at:
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global?m=div
Thank you very much for that information.
Many? Try, Most. Probably 90%.
Its. A. Cold.
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