Posted on 11/12/2020 10:11:56 PM PST by bitt
News reports omit the distinction between hospitalizations "with" COVID and "from" COVID.
News reports this week have declared a sky-high record of COVID-19 hospitalizations throughout the United States. But these accounts have ignored a critical signifier of that public health metric, failing to distinguish the number of patients hospitalized directly because of COVID from those who merely test positive for the disease while in the hospital for other treatment.
Hospitalizations have been viewed as one of the key metrics by which health officials measure the pandemic's course in a community, a state or a country. Fears of overwhelmed hospital capacity have driven much of the world's response to the pandemic. Spurred in part by Italy's experience in March, when local healthcare systems were severely strained due to a crush of COVID-19 patients, Western governments have justified sweeping lockdowns and closures partly in order to avert overwhelming their healthcare systems.
The U.S. has largely avoided major shocks to its healthcare systems. Although some local regions have at times been burdened by spikes in COVID patients, hospitals have largely been able to manage brief surges in patients either through adequate capacity or additional surge capacity added in advance of the spikes.
Major news outlets this week, however, warned that the U.S. had just hit a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations nationwide, with some public health experts arguing that the upward trajectory in in-patient COVID infections may continue to overwhelming levels unless the country enacts a second series of lockdown policies in order to preempt further infections.
Admitted 'for' COVID versus 'with' COVID
Yet the raw numbers of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infections may obscure more than they reveal, conflating patients hospitalized explicitly because of a coronavirus infection with those who simply tested positive for the virus while hospitalized for something else.
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It’s flu season. What’s the bounty on flu victims?
“Unclear”...I would say that it’s pretty clear.
Influenza has been cancelled this year ... in favor of a high Covid count.
Shhhhh.....you’re not allowed to ask those questions!
They undermine the Uniparty.
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all that’s worth knowing at the moment...and even this is dubious:
Statista: Covid deaths per million
#1 Belgium (home of EU) 107.8 Deaths per million (last 7 days)
#12 USA 20.17 Deaths per million (last 7 days)
#17 Sweden 7.78 Deaths per million (last 7 days)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
but it hasn’t stopped worldwide FakeNewsMSM headlining US massive surge in coronavirus CASES.
Best strategy for “containing” the uncontainable—do like Sweden:
NO mask mandates.
NO lockdowns.
Try to protect the most vulnerable but let’r rip and burn out.
If biden wins, just wait until you see how fast these numbers drop a few weeks after. I do not believe anything coming out of this government or media.
They’ll have to do a dog-and-pony show first. “Nationwide mask mandate” kinda thing. Then they can claim “See? If we had done that at the beginning...” They’ve got to have something that looks like action but really isn’t to claim they “fixed it”.
That’s how they will try to add legitimacy to a biden administration.
“You have COVID-29, he has COVID-19, they all have COVID-19!”.
Where’s the Pneumonia numbers?
Hopefully California locks down again. No way in effing hell will I work wearing a face diaper, shield and gloves to work. Guess I’m back on unemployment if not.
Dominion Software in there somewhere. I think we need to take that whole Dominion thing seriously. It seems like that’s where they’re going with all this.
And it will remain unclear - no interest at all in answering any germane questions, but hooray for all the hospitals getting all those extra $$$$$ for taking care of pneumonia patients.
Where’s the Pneumonia numbers?
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Covid has cured the flu & pneumonia
Not a chance. This is the #global rest virus they designed and released. As soon as America bowed the knee in fear and put masks on.. they got blood thirsty.
They will continue to use this crisis, like everyone they created before.
Especially if this virus gets trump out. They cancelked easter and every other holiday. This is their drunk with power moment. America went without a single shot firef.
These obscure, politically applied numbers are being used to punish Trump by inflicting pain on citizens sort of like obama did when he shut down or curtailed important services during budget tifts. Trump should demand state stats separate by test type and purpose. Also split hospital diagnoses as to reason for hospitalization. I read hospitals get 13k additional for covid on top of other diagnoses.
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