Posted on 06/28/2020 5:19:26 PM PDT by Enlightened1
In Texas, focal point of national anxiety about a coronavirus 'second wave,' the state counts every COVID-positive hospital patient as a hospitalization for COVID itself, which may be exaggerating numbers.
Health officials in Texas are logging every single COVID-19-positive hospital patient in the state as a COVID-19 hospitalization, even if the patients themselves are admitted seeking treatment for something other than the coronavirus.
That policy may be serving to artificially inflate what ostensibly seems like a significant COVID-19 surge in the state. Texas has lately been the focal point of national anxiety over concerns that a "second wave" of the coronavirus has begun there after the state began reopening nearly two months ago.
COVID-19 hospitalizations there have been on a steady upward track for about the last two weeks, per the state's coronavirus dashboard, which on Thursday recorded about 4,400 coronavirus hospitalizations in the state. But at least part of that trend may be due to liberal coding policies by state officials.
Lindsey Rosales, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, confirmed to Just the News this week that the state is categorizing every inpatient in the state with a positive COVID-19 test as a COVID-19 hospitalization.
"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.
Asked if inpatients in the state are tested for COVID-19 whenever they arrive for treatment, Rosales said, "Hospitals set their own protocols for determining when and if to test patients for COVID-19."
She said the state does not keep track of the patients hospitalized with the coronavirus versus those hospitalized specifically because of it.
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Governor Inslee of WA going nuts wanting to hold back his phase 4 opening; I bet he’ll shut down the state again because AZ or some other far out state has a spike.
You lied. They aren’t counting every hospitalization, only covid-positive ones. Read your own article.
This is like the old Dilbert cartoon where the pointy-haired boss announces a policy of rewarding SW engineers for every SW bug they find.
Wally the SW Engineer immediately announces his intention to write himself a new mini-van that afternoon.
Hospitals seem to be on the honor system for how much COVID they encounter. But if you reward people for stuff, you can get a lot of that stuff.
Oh you mean like this?
“Health officials in Texas are logging every single COVID-19-positive hospital patient in the state as a COVID-19 hospitalization, even if the patients themselves are admitted seeking treatment for something other than the coronavirus.”
You said in your first response that any hospitalization period is considered a Covid case. That’s wrong or a lie, which is it? You just quoted again where it says covid-positive cases.
So if I break my leg and go to the hospital, and the test for Covid comes back positive, they say I’m at the hospital because of Covid-not my broken leg. Doesn’t Abbott know this. Why is he in such a blankety blank panic. This, along with the list of new symptoms is clearly getting out of control.
The State is counting EVERY hospital admission as a Covid Positive patient. Never mind what a test says.
This is probably being done by most hospitals in most states.
He misquoted his own article!
Okay
Gov. Abbott doesn’t know what he is doing!
Struck and killed by lightning ?
Definitely a coronavirus death because, you know, we have got to eliminate PDJT and the stoopid citizens of the UnitedStates.
The State is counting EVERY hospital admission as a Covid Positive patient. Never mind what a test says.
This is probably being done by most hospitals in most states.
No doubt. Hospitals got hammered financially when they were forced to cancel elective surgeries for months on end. Many are near bankruptcy thanks to the Chicom Flu terrorist induced panic and looking for every dime they can get now.
You are right, but also a jerk.
What he did say is anyone admitted for anything - a broken arm, who tests positive for covid is counted as a covid hospitization.
Even if the covid is symptom-free. Pure corruption.
Thanks for finding and posting this!
If I’m a jerk to call someone out for gaslighting and lying, so be it.
So a young person breaking an ankle with NO symptoms of COVID-19 - No Fever, No Cough, just a positive COVID-19 test is listed and the teenager is listed as a COVID-19 HOSPITALIZATION!!!!????
My pleasure!
I simply pointed out that his comment was wrong. And it is wrong. If ALL hospitalizations were called Covid then ok. That’s what he said. That’s not how it is though.
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