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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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Well, if you temporarily need those ICU beds 1/3 could be significant.
Seems to be a local problem, meriting local measures.
I knida wonder why the temporary load can’t just be shared with nearby hosps that aren’t approaching “crisis!!!” loads.
Thanks for the info on how significant the difference between “WITH covid” and “FOR covid” makes.
Media makes it sound like all are FOR covid. Very misleading.
“The State is counting EVERY hospital admission as a Covid Positive patient. Never mind what a test says.”
Maybe he was a bit fast on his post and forgot one other detail.
Gawd knows no one around here has done that but, I’d be more pissed about the exaggerations and frauds from other real criminals
Like counting everyone who came to the hospital because they dont know how to safely use a power tool and oh, by the way, happen to test positive for CCP-19 which is not the primary reason they showed up nor is a reason to hospitalize them for being asymptomatic
And then get get bonus fraud monies for lying
Yeah, I’d be pissed at enlightened1....not
AFAIK San Antonio and Houston are at or near 100% capacity.
Well, you should have assumed the OP just made a mistake. Happens all the time to all= of us.
Often hard to tell if someone is lying or mistaken, so best to start off assuming error.
...End of my Kumbaya effort...
My view on capacity use is that the hospitals zoomed to maximum usage when electives were allowed again.
That’s a money-maker for them.
I’m not informed on the finances of hospitals, but that’s how it works in manufacturing.
You’ve said it numerous times.... Sheesh. Give it a rest. I appreciated the article.
Someone comes into the hospital for heart surgery, gets tested for COVID and is asymptotic positive, is classified as a COVID hospitalization. That is wrong. The patient hospitalized for heart surgery.
even this hospital is not at crisis level. The title and article are pure fearmongering
Thank you.
Do you get the point of the article?
Yes.
I’d hoped those exclamation marks would show my sardonicism about the “crisis!!!” the media is pushing falsely.
The following is taken from the article:
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.
sorry. didn’t pick up on it. my apology
I know that. The poster however conveniently left out the covid-positve part, intentionally IMO, to maximize sensationalism. Already explained this.
You’re in the hospital “biz”.
Do you know if management scheduled the maximum number of elective procedures they could after the ban was lifted on electives?
Lot of electives require post-op ICU occupancy.
Seems to be the reasonable fiscal thing for hosps to do.
But I’m not familiar with their financial details.
Would explain a lot about the rising ICU/hospitalization numbers.
The Local DFW news tonight said there were “over 1,000 Hopital admissions/day” during the headline covid story.
It smelled of BS.
It is lake/travel season in Texas and about 1/3 of Texan’s can’t swim or drive.
But even if they are being admitted for something other than the virus, they are not treating for the virus.
It’s not BS. I just found out that out that 2 people a family member knows either died or is dying of covid. And one of them was only 32.
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