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.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
The posted article said every positive is counted and the mis-speak was quickly corrected. Let it go.
Yeah, it was corrected by me.
There aren’t 1,000 Hospital admission/day in DFW for covid.
That is 100% BS.
If someone under 50 dies from Covid, they had a serious medical issue, were unhealthy or their own immune system killed them, not the covid.
California had lower death rates than NY because they treated the post covid immune response where NY kept trying to fight the virus.
I bet that all hospital deaths are counted as COVID-19 deaths also, and that there is no reporting of any kind of influenza deaths other than Covid right now.
Ya think?🤔🤥
And how many other states with supposed spikes in the Chi-Com virus are doing this?
So you break your arm. You go to hospital.
You already had Chi-Com-DNC virus- so you test positive for anti-bodies for Chi-Com-DNC virus.
They add you to "hospitalized for Chi-Com-DNC virus" list.
MSM starts the panic all over again😖.
This 🐂💨💩 is wrecking people's businesses and lives.
They need to be called on their deceptive tactics and held accountable.
I looked up the Texas Covid 19 hospitalization data.
unlike South Dakota’s data, they don’t list “Active Hospitalizations” for the state, so you’d have to add up every county - lame.
The Second hardest hit county (Dallas) says they only admitted 230 people to the hospital for CCV IN A WEEK. Not a Day, A WEEK.
Dallas County has 2.5 Million people.
“IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME.”
Disappointing that the OP hasn’t acknowledged their error.
Just makes them look unreliable IMHO.
Meant the above for you too.
Houston ...
“Callender, in explaining his confidence about hospital capacity, said the system is “used to dealing with complex patients” and believes it will be able to adjust to increased demand.
“Across our system, we have about 4,000 beds that we can bring into play” for intensive care, he said. “Right now, only about 30% are being utilized for Covid care, so we still have plenty of capacity for Covid patients as well as patients who need hospitalization for other illnesses.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/houston-hospital-ceo-says-it-has-capacity-to-handle-texas-case-surge.html
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